Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [was: Happy Holidays]

[Steve Wiltsie]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [was: Happy Holidays]
> Sounds safer.  Could be worse--I heard Indiana got 2.5 feet in some areas,
> and they declared a state of emergency.  Personally, I find that
> ridiculous.  I remember being a kid and having the sidewalk from our front
> steps out to the main right-of-way sidewalk and even that being 3.5 feet
> high with snow on both sides and we -still- dug out.  No whiny state of
> emergency, etc.  Just plain silly.  "Oh my god!  A flake of snow!  Call
the
> governor!"  People south of I-80 don't seem to know how to handle winter
> weather worth $0.10.

At least you weren't in some of the hundreds of cars and trucks that got
stranded on the interstates and secondary roads in Indiana and northern
Kentucky.  It took up to 24 hours to get all of the people out of their
vehicles and into a shelter.

>
> I can handle it if we could just get the #@)%*! car out of the parking
> lot--we're only 40 feet from the plowed throughfare!  Talk about
> frustrating...  Driving isn't a problem.  Getting the car to move -is-.
> Totally unprepared, as I thought it would be like 4", not 8-12+.
>

Let's see, complaining about 8 to 12" and not concerned about those of us
who got 2.5 feet.  Sounds right to me.  Or maybe just ridiculous.  (That's
"ridiculous" with a capital "Jerk").

Steve Wiltsie
microCONCEPTS Div. multi/user/inc.        Since 1981