[Magdalen] Dumped and Dumping.

[Charles Wohlers]

Our power has just come back on - after being out 3-1/2 hours today, and 
also 3 hours yesterday. These were (apparently) fairly widespread outages. 
We've had (not coincidentally) a lot of heavy wet snow, along with sleet and 
rain, and temperatures right around freezing. Trees are all white with snow 
cover and there's close to a foot of snow on the ground. My car was in the 
shop for VT inspection (I'm now an official Vuhmontuh!) and snow tires, but 
still couldn't make it up our driveway - things are really slippery where 
there hasn't been salt on the roads. Also, businesses have been complaining 
about phone service from Fairpoint, which is on strike.

So I'm looking in to getting a UPS for our DSL modem. And considering a 
generator. At least the power hasn't been out for long each time.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:51 PM
To: cantor03 ; Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Dumped and Dumping.

A couple days ago, we had a long spate of torrential rain.  Had it been
snow (just a question of a couple degrees cooler!) We'd have had two feet
of snow.

As it was, we got by without any serious problems. No trees knocked down in
my area, but quite a few branches down, of course.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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>
>
> This Nor'easter was predicted originally to be long since over,
> but the storm is moving much more slowly than the weather people
> thought.
>
> As a result, we've had about 12" here in the mountains, and it is
> still coming down at a pretty good rate.  Most activity that can  be
> closed is closed, including the schools they originally put on a
> 2 hour delay thinking it would be clear by now.
>
> This is all just in time for a visit on Saturday-Sunday of my  daughter
> and son-in-law wouldn't you know.
>
> The only bright spot is that with retirement, I'm not having to face
> sliding up and down the mountain to work.
>
>
> David Strang.
>