OT: Bob Stockler

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Having just been through the local power outage myself (and being one of
the lucky 64,000 people they've restored power to so far out of 100,000+),
I decided to give Bob Stockler a call and see if this was related to his
apparent absence since earlier in the week.  It is, actually.

Bob's unfortunately one of the large group of over 40,000 people still
without power since Tuesday night's huge storm system and subsequent
outage.  Winds were sheer-force in excess of 70mph (I've read as high as
80mph), so mathematically it was the equivalent of going through about a
category one hurricane.

If anyone's been trying to reach Bob, he and his wife are safe.  However,
he hasn't been able to get online since Tuesday evening.  I'm told he'll be
back online as soon as possible.  (He seemed a bit antsy, as I certainly
would be!)  Projections for our area say that they're hoping for most
of the power restoration to be done by the weekend, but some people could
potentially be without power as long as until early next week.  There are
over 3000 lines down, and we have five states and more outside contractors
helping our local companies restore power and clean up.

Just a heads-up for Bob's many friends and colleagues that may have been
concerned over any lack of response to correspondance.

Bests,

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