[Rhodes22-list] The weather.

[Michael Meltzer]

you forgot one :-) they stop making northern/Yankee jokes for a while :-)

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The weather.


> Hang in there Rummy,
> 
> I don't envy you guys down there a bit when you do finally get a winter 
> storm. First of all, they're damned near always ice storms. These can 
> sometimes be terribly destructive. Second, none of those homeboys down 
> there have a clue what to do when there's a snow flake in the air, let 
> alone a road covered by a sheet of ice. Third, the highway departments 
> there not only don't know what to do with it, they have NO equipment to do 
> it with. Simply put Rummy, YOUR SCREWED, until God takes the stuff 
> away.  :-) :-) Hope you bought bread and milk.
> 
> I feel better now, we only got an inch of snow last night.
> Rik
> 
> 
> At 08:19 PM 12/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >In case anybody cares, the weather in SC is miserable tonight and expected to
> >get only worse. We have about 7500 homes without power already and about a
> >quarter of an inch of ice on everything. It's supposed to get colder and
> >continue to rain with snow and ice accumulating up towards two inches
> >tonight. So, if you don't hear from me for a couple of days.....don't worry,
> >we just are trying to keep the fires lit. Thank goodness for laptops with
> >battery's. I'd go nuts without my Internet.
> >So far we've been lucky. The lights flickered twice today, but managed to
> >stay on.
> >
> >Rummy
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