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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~
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> (Oh yeah, and the geniuses at WashDOT wouldn't salt or spray the roads,
> because they were paranoid the runoff would get into the Columbia and harm
> their precious salmon, so they instead used gravel and sand which makes
> almost no improvement on the roads' traction, but it does make the
> salmon-huggers feel better.)
> 
This time around they weren't shy about the salt or chemicals.  The problem
is that one of their damn snow plows snapped off my mailbox post at thr root
so now I have to find the time to replace the damn thing - they won't.

BTW, to the nice guy that called me last night about the Focus IDE card, sorry
I didn't call back!  My cell service is flaky at the house.

g.

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