Ray, 40, of Charlotte, passed away on July 29, 2010 at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, NC after his heroic battle with brain cancer
Ray was born on November 20, 1969 in Miami, FL. Among his many family and friends left behind are his wife Anita, son Tommy, daughters Devyn and Taylor, mother Margo Hall and husband Robert and their extended Colorado Family, father Ray Strickland and wife Ruth and their extended family, sister Cindy Chiapusio and husband Chip and their children Kris and Tori, grandmother Marjorie Strickland, Grandma Jane Klein, and so many other family and friends.
Ray loved life, underdogs, stray animals and people in general. He was extremely outgoing making friends easily wherever he went. He was an avid Miami Dolphins Fan, loved to ride Harley motorcycles and collect junk.
Ray will be deeply missed by all. To his family, his passing will make the sun shine a little dimmer
A memorial service to Celebrate Ray's journey through life will be held on Sunday, August 1st 2010 at 4:00pm at Carolina Funeral & Cremation Center located at 5505 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28212 704-568-0023. Reception immediately following at The Strickland's home located at 151 Sardis Road North Charlotte, NC 28270, 704-248-4914.
In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution for the benefit of Ray's son Thomas Ray Strickland age 2 1/2, to Bank of America account #237004123853 or through paypal at https://sites.google.com/a/chiapusio.org/thomas-ray-strickland/
Online condolences may be sent to carolinafuneral.com.

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Why is there a fuel shortage in Charlotte when everyplace else has fuel? Why did our prices jump $0.40 to $0.50 the day Hurricane Ike landed in TEXAS? So, over two weeks ago a hurricane landed 1800 miles from Charlotte, yet today I was still rationed to $20.00 worth of fuel for my vehicle. I don't understand.

Being the most prominent 'Chiapusio' on the IntarWeb Thing, I was contacted in regards to a lost wallet. If Ronald Chiapusio or someone who knows him please contact me, I'd be glad to put you in touch with the person that has your wallet.

chris (at) chiapusio (dot) org.

Went out alone looking for gas containers and at my second Home Depot (University Drive), I found some in stock. They turned out to be nice 6 Gallon containers which was a boon later on. Because of high demand, they limited us to purchasing two cans per person. While this sounds kinda hum-drum, it took more than two hours to accomplish, mostly standing in line to get inside Home Depot.

Cindy got the call that her Boca Raton office had lost its roof in the storm. This building is a four story building and the office space is on the third floor so it was a bit suprising how the property manager emphasized over and over again that it was a total loss. There just wasn't enough rain in this storm for it to be that bad but soon we found out the real story. One of the Doctors call the property manager and got out that the fire suppression sprinkler system had malfunctioned and flooded all four floors of the building.

Wilma+1

After spending the morning being stunned and reviewing damage information from Florida Power and Light and the local news stations, we trekked across broward county looking for an open gas station to keep our cars and generators running.

We are now at Wilma+8 and my super gracious friend whom hosts llamas.net at his company has come back on the Internet, so I have some backlog of information and pictures to share. The short story is this: South Florida got hit hard. Really Hard. The pictures are uploading though we have 1.3GB of them now and it'll take time.

Come Monday October 24, 2005, we will be under the influence of yet another hurricane of this most amazing season. Current predictions show it will be a Cat 2 or Cat 1 by the time it arrives over our home, so we aren't too worried about it at this point. The big problem is how long its been sitting over the Ycatan Peninsula and not getting on with where its going to go next. I suspect that the devastation in Mexico will be just as epic as New Orleans was from Katrina due to the immense power of the storm and the painfully slow movement. for several hours where was no recorded movement of the eye (zero mph), however now at 11:00AM EDT, it is racing away at a whopping 2 mph.

I don't know how it happened, but we we're baking some potatoes last night to accompany our dinner and when I went to retrieve said potatoes, I found this! We took a few pictures but have called in Mulder and Sculley to get to the bottom of this. While Fox and Dana are handling all the 'heavy lifting', I have but a single vexing question. Is it an 'Ex-Potato' or an 'X-Potato'? I'll put up a poll. -Chipper