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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 2851098, member: 89393&quot;]My local, highly-trusted weatherman mentioned the formation of a tropical depression just west of the African coast about two weeks before everything happened on September 9th; he&#039;s good about that. Even as late as eight or nine days before Irma slammed into the Florida Keys he would not make any commitments as to which way things would go. All of us along the Gulf Coast fear one of these entering the Gulf, and besides, we had just had to deal with Harvey. At one point before Harvey took his final course up the Sabine River and then skirted across northwestern Louisiana there was a chance that He could have moved a bit more eastward and clipped my part of the state. At any rate, the weather cannot be to blame; it is what it is. Mark Twain is reported to have said, &quot;Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My initial points were that I should have been more careful than I was at checking out the seller. Even if I had, nearly all of his comments were favorable, so I probably would have bid anyway. There is a lot of talk about the USPS being at fault, and I know that there are times when they are; but I find their service over the past five years to be far better than previous to that <b>where I live</b>, and the online tracking system may not be perfect but it, too, has improved greatly as time has gone on. So it has to be the eBay seller that should receive most of the focus. In the two unaccounted for items I bought in the latter part of August it is obvious to me now that if I had not rushed into buying so quickly, things would have been better for me. I have learned something from this.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, since eBay is good about sending emails on the status of auctions, on one I received overnight I noticed that the seller was in Miami. I do hope that the winner of that auction doesn&#039;t encounter any problem with this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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