Christine Hudnall

Or would it be identity theft, or hell, I don’t know what you would call it. :(

I got offline to head out to take pictures of our storms earlier, before I could go the phone rang. Am glad we answered it! Sort of.

I got on the phone and I hear a woman:

Hi, this is Michelle from xxxxxxxxx Securities, Fraud Department. Have you recently used your Visa Card for online purchase, for $1,106.87?

Uhm…nooooooo!

I won’t go into the rest of the that call, because I ended it pretty quickly, only because, it could be anyone calling for info. So, I hung up and called the number on the back of my actual card. Okay, so yes, Michelle really was with my bank company and who she said she was, her note was right there on my account.

Apparently someone had gotten hold of my number or something and was trying to use it to purchase what I assume is ticket from US Airways. Hell, I don’t even pay that much for my airline tickets!

Ended up: no, they can’t tell me who it was, no they can’t tell me where they tried to do it from, they voided the transaction, so I didn’t actually lose any money (thankyou Michelle!), cancelled my card and will send out a new one. I asked if any way they could get into my actual account, not just card number, no, account was okay. Had transaction gone through, bank would have reimbursed me, which would leave them out the money, unless they took it back to US Airways, which would leave US Airways without the money.

While I understand they can’t give me the information, even though I don’t like it, I still want whomever did it to not just get away with it. I want them hunted down like the vermin scum that they are, and brought to justice! Is that asking too much?? I don’t think so.

So, do these lower than pond-scum normally wait to use the information once they have it? Because I haven’t used my card since middle of May.

Now I have to change my information for automatic renewals. This sucks!! :(

So, thank you Michelle, Doug and Juan - for doing your jobs and not taking personally me getting upset.

And to the pond-scum, whomever you are…. I hope you, well, you can imagine what I hope happens to you!

Agghhhhhhhhh…….

I love the Latest News feature - except for one thing!  When old posts are pushed off the that section, instead of dropping down into the main/regular part of the blog, they just drop off the front page, period.

Anyone know of a work-a-round for this?  Otherwise, I’m gonna have to quit using it. :-(

Also…….. for those out there ( Minz in particular :D ) , yes I will be changing the coding to make my page at least fluid/liquid.

Got to run, storms building up and I should have been on the road at least an hour ago with camera. Yikes!

Until later…

I meant to put this up when Rory sent out his email, but time slipped away from me. :(

SWIFT Weather has already met the matching donations, but that doesn’t mean to stop helping. As someone who lost everything during Hurricane Andrew, and only had the clothes on my back, literally, help is always needed and appreciated. Yes, even small donations help, everything adds up.

http://www.swiftweather.com/relief/

If you don’t want to go to Rory’s page, then by all means go straight to The Salvation Army donation page - at the very bottom, where it asks for specific use, put Tornado Damage Relief.

https://secure.salvationarmy.org/donations.nsf/donate?openform&t=US_USC*USE*USS*USW

The outbreak of storms on May 10 (2008) injured many and took the lives of others, including one whose mission it was to save lives.

At just 21 years of age, Tyler Casey died Monday, May 12, 2008, from injuries he suffered Saturday, May 10, 2008, while trying to warn others of a tornado along the Missouri-Oklahoma border. Tyler was a volunteer firefighter with the Seneca Area Fire Protection District and a storm spotter.

He leaves behind a young daughter with another child on the way. A memorial fund has been set up:

Tyler Casey Memorial Fund

C/O - Campbell-Biddlecome Funeral Home

P.O. Box 380

Seneca, MO 64865

More information can be found here:

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/OPINIONS01/805140414

http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/In-The-Line-Of-Duty/Missouri-Firefighter-Succumbs-to-Injuries-from-Tornado/39$59444