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I nice thing to do to remember your friend. You can put my name in the drawing.

You're in!

You can put me in.  That's a neat way to remember someone.

Very nice way to remember Tim, his son, and associate!  I would be happy if my name was added as well!

Very sad story. Closest we were to one was about 3 or 4 miles away and everyone headed for shelter. Damage the next morning was astonishing. Saw an IMAX presentation on Tornadoes and Storm Chasers, definitely not something for the faint hearted.

Mark, you're in the draw!

Sorry to hear about the loss of life.

Love to have my name in the drawing...

As a tornado spotter here in Iowa, I know the hazards which are out there. I would be honored to be included.. Bob

I too would love to be included! Very nice way to honor your friends! Mother Nature can be glorious and beautiful, but incredibly harsh also!

Sorry for your loss.  We, too, have a lot of experience with tornadoes here in north Texas.  Our window washer lost his home last Christmas to a tornado and then lost his father a few weeks ago to the tornado near Canton, TX.  Homes and businesses can be rebuilt. Lives cannot.

Please add me to your drawing.

I am also a certified Skywarn storm spotter here in Indiana, and know all to well the dangers.  I also would be honored to be included.    Mike T

I too am sorry about your loss, I think its a great thing you are doing and you can count me in!

That's a very nice way to honor your friend.  Count me in!

Please include me

Great way to remember them

Nice thought, put me down as in.

Very nice gesture.   Please add me to the list.

Wally

I'm looking at my 1 year old and my crazy little 4 year old and I can't imagine going through what you must have felt. Not to storms, but lost a friend not to long ago to a car accident. We set up a scholarship in honor of him at the university.

If you'll have us in the giveaway, we are in awesome that you are doing this to remember your friend.

*Edit: Was reading and posting on my phone. Clarified my post.

In about 13 hours we have 12 entries!!! The close off limit is 32 people! So if you want to enter, request NOW!

Put me in. Please.

Put me in also, please. A very nice gesture to your friend.

Very sorry for the loss. I would love an entry. 

If entries are still accepted, I will join. What a kind thing to do to honor a friend.

Hurry 15 more entry's! Enter now or be missing out in a chance to win a 50 years anniversary Atlas O 60ft boxcar!

Put me in if you still have slots.

Sorry for your loss. Living in the Northeast we don't see many tornadoes. Can't imagine what its like to go through one.

Yup. I live in Morehead ky and we don't see ANY tornados.

I would like to be added please.

Add me please! I had a friend die in a helicopter crash last year. I plan on making a model of the helicopter he flew for decades, a Eurocopter a350. I plan on customizing it with "Pilot: Chris Maggio" on the side.

Hey Ty, you can add my name to the "hat," but should my name come up... I want you consider the gift for Aldovar (several posts above) in place of me.

Now, I don't know Aldovar at all save for his posts here. Never talked to him or communicated with him. But from his post here and other places, well in a hobby that has gotten increasingly expensive at least on the brand new retail side, I sympathize with trying to raise a young family and do trains too.

Ty, it's a nice thing you're doing here. A quick glance at any news source is enough to depress the daylights out of the happiest of people. Seems to me like we're living in dark and selfish times, so any small act of kindness - like a small light - gets a lot brighter in a dark place.

I consider your gesture to be along those lines. And I in turn am passing the gesture on.

I remember 5/18 as the anniversary of Mt St Helens' big blowout back in 1980, but that's neither here nor there

I'm in the Northeast as well, and have opined that even our worst thunderstorms wait till they're over Long Island before thinking of dropping even an EF0. Being so far from the Midwest, the most I can do is photograph nearby thunderheads during the day (rare) and do long exposure photos of passing storms at night hoping to catch a shot of a lightning discharge.

I've also watched pretty much all the stormchasing documentaries there are and I can't help but to think back to this tragedy every time I watch raw chase footage on YouTube. I think I'll be re-watching the analyses of the El Reno storm tonight. 

---PCJ

Brianl, I know a great idea when I see it! Ty, I too,if selected, would like to see the car go to Aldovar in the same spirit in which you started this thread! Thank you Brian for thinking of that! 

Thanks for your consideration. I recall that tragic event. 

Sorry about your loss...you can add my name

Please put me in, a very nice way to remember someone!

Always sad losing a close friend. One of mine returns to my dreams even 18 years after his death, so, yes, I understand. Include me, too.

Very kind jester by you for your friends please add me to the list

Sorry Brian and play trains for not responding. But I will put your names in for Aldovar. The thank you for being so supportive! I want this community to be a happy place! Not boring and usual. But this offer is something that 1/1000 people would do. I will put in as three for Aldovar. You two deserve something for giving up your entry for someone. This is very special for you guys. And I want to thank give thanks for the small community that I recently joined. I'm a know it all school but I really just spend time looking at the posts and stuff here on the ogrforums and the things that I like to do. But I want to thank this very tiny chat and the people who have entered for this give away. I will email you both later today in the morning. And one other thing is that there are 8 available entry's left. But i want to thank both of you for giving up your entry to Aldovar. 

Please include me on you list. The car (if won) will be transferred to River City 3 Railers. That way, it can/will be run in remembrance of your friend by club members whenever we display.

This is a very nice thing you are doing to remember your friends.

I would appreciate in you put my name in for the Atlas O boxcar.

Thank you again:

RonH

Please add my name

Brent