After all this time, I realized I have never responded to this thread.
I was on the old Lowe's board, I believe all the way back to '95 when it first started. I'm sure I was under a different name, either "jschlitz" or something to do with Texas Tech (maybe TTU-something?).
I stayed with them on-and-off until 2002. I moved back to Dallas in November 2002, so I lost interest in the tropics altogether. I disappeared and completely missed the mass exodus over to S2K.
We moved back to Houston in 2005 and with that busy season, my interest was piqued again. I went back to the old Lowe's/PBI board - and found it desolate. Only Jim from Tallahassee and a handful of other old timers remained. I posted 'where did everybody go?' and someone PM'd me a link to S2K.
So, when I got here, I saw "ahh, that's where Southerngale, Dixiebreeze, and all the rest of them went".
I've been here ever since and never looked back
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PS: Has it really been
15 years now since it all began? WOW time flies!!