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Re: Age of Reason...

  To: MotoFox
MotoFox wrote:
> From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2
> 
> And it came to pass that Gene Buckle delivered the following message unto
> the people, saying~
> 
>>   To: comp.sys.apple2
>> Due to last week's "Snowpocalypse" here in Western Washington, the dancing
>> that the commercial power did before going out killed the IIe that ran the
>> board.  If the Focus IDE controller isn't dead, I should have the bbs back
>> up by no later than Wednesday.  I need to dig out my "hot spare" IIe. :)
>> 
>> Thanks for your patience!
>> 
>> g.
> 
> Where are you based out of? Seattle?
> 
> Down here in the Vancouver area we only had about an inch last Wednesday,
> and it was all gone by about 1500 that afternoon. Didn't stop Evergreen
> School District from cancelling all the day's classes and KATU/KGW from
> hyping it into the Storm of the Decade!

We got hit with 6-14" followed by an ice storm.  PSE had over 900 crews working
to restore power.  Some folks _still_ don't have power back because of the
wind storm that followed the ice...  I was out from Thursday to Sunday.

g.
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