Factory Five Survives Hurricane Irene

[Dave Smith]

The crew did an outstanding job of prepping the building for the storm and it survived without damage.

Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. One thing is immensely eveident and that is thru hardship, Americans have a tradition of helping each other out.

While we are good here at Factory Five, five of our crew are without power at home, but all are safe. We are all safe and thankful to be in the clear.

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The storm is replaced with a beautiful New England late summer day and a lot of relief...

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The boarding and prep definitely made a huge difference.

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The building survived unscathed.

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Surprise photo of the am staff meeting.

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Bill and paul were packing at 8 am sharp!

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Stewart is a bit late, with cars waiting to be picked up, still the shortened 4 day week will be quite busy.

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Jessie in Shipping has her iced coffee and is ready to rock!

[Dave Smith]

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Welding hit it hard first thing.

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Chris F. sets up a new Mk4 in the jig while Kevin works the finished spin jig.

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Chris gets going

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Josh and Fred load new laser cut aluminum in chassis assembly under the watchful eye of a Gen 2 Coupe nose.

[LuckyWinner]

Hey Dave, is one of those Roadsters on the rack mine??????? Its getting close. Glad to see you are all doing well.

[Dave Smith]

Dave! I dont know what stage your car is in but I can check on it. We are planning quite the ceremony for your return brother. We will do a great job for you, your only job is staying safe! Seeing the response of my neighbors and friends thru Irene makes me proud to be American. Evryone is helping each other with small things and big. Ive got 4 days of emails to catch up on, seems I can never get ahead, but you were my first post man. See you soon.

[riptide motorsport]

It always feels good to get back to work/normal after a huricane!

[Dave Smith]

Check out these pix of the storm near my house... totally different story than FFR.

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This tree was one of two that came down next to a buddy of mine's house. It landed ON the house!

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Streets all over Barrington were covered with debris, some worse than others

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My daughter Nicole checks out the surf at the local beach... This is in a HARBOR area of Narragansett Bay!

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Kids had fun in the 50 mph winds. Barrington enjoyed the record wind speed measured in New England of 82 mph!

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This is my house and the branches that my kids and I cleared yesterday just from our lawn.

[oldguy668]

So where's the picture of Dave in his wetsuit atop his 9' Hobie? Dude, I think you missed the good waves...

[68GT500MAN]

Dave, glad to hear that you and your family are safe. That is quite a pile of debris stacked by the road, at least none of your trees fell on the house.
Doug