shutdown -h in Denver

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 07:05 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> In case you haven't seen the weather reports, we've got one of those
> once-a-decade snow storms - 4 feet plus in my driveway one foot plus
> in the street and more coming down. My vote for"player of the game" is
> Xcel Energy. They've done their setup correctly. In spite of the fact
> that everything in the area is "halted", we've still got power and
> heat.
> 
> Yesterday my car got stuck in a drift on the way home. Two sets of
> Samaritans helped me out. One gave me a ride to a gas station where I
> tromped around for a couple of hours until a lady drove in to fill up
> her SUV. She delivered 3 of us to our doorsteps! Somehow, I don't
> think a liberal weenie in a pushcart-sized alternative energy vehicle
> would have been much use.
> 
> It's really a blessing to be stranded in my own home instead of at the
> airport or on the side of the road.

You got that right, Brother. My old 1977 Chevy Pick-em-up Truck with the
chugging sidepipes hitched up to a roaring gas consuming 350 V8 with a 4
barrel Holley and some chains would have got you out, with some sandbags
in the truck bed. I was pulling logs with a chain with it a couple of
days ago, we're heating with all of the fallen trees to save some bucks,
and it just snorted and pulled 'em. New chain on the chain saw, all is
OK in this world. It's still shirt sleeve weather in Nawth Carolaky. 

I remember a week of true 70 below in Helena, MT my *last* year there.
When I couldn't get a couple of weeks of hot weather in the summer, I
was a goner. Still, the snow is nice if you're at home, the utility bill
is paid and and the larder is stocked. If not, Mother Nature always
wins. <sigh> Ric  

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