shutdown -h in Denver

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 19:38 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/21/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 07:05 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> Yep, I really should have left out the liberal weenie joke. Even a
> fire-breathing fundamentalist with a Bible on the seat driving a tiny
> car wouldn't have been much help. You gotta have four-wheel drive or a
> lotta horses under the hood in weather like this.
> 
> Meanwhile, on the home front, we've managed to clear the lower part of
> the drive to the middle of the street, so when we finally get the car
> unburied tomorrow, we get to go do it all again 10 miles away where my
> car is stranded, assuming that it hasn't been towed!

No, it'll still be there, covered with ten feet of dirty snow from the
passing snow-plow. <chuckles> Been there, done that. Heh, my old pickup
would pull out Satan if I could get a chain to him! Ric

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