From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Jeannie Hobbs pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > Veronique and I both evacuated from Boulder Creek on August 18 - V. to   
   > Dover's house in Santa Cruz and me and spouse to his parents' in Fremont.   
   >   
   > We visited home last Sunday - still standing by the stroke of luck of being   
   > on the east side of the highway instead of the west side. Julia's house is   
   > fine too; it's right in town and was badly threatened August 20 but they   
   > fought back the fires and saved the town.  Sunday we emptied the fridge   
   > (pee-yew!!!) and swept ashes and got some more redwood duff raked up in case   
   > a flareup or wind sent embers our way.   
   >   
   > We're moving back home this afternoon; power is still out but supposed to be   
   > back tonight, and water testing hasn't come back yet so we can't drink or   
   > boil it, but we expect those results tomorrow or early next week.  In the   
   > meantime we'll be on generator and bottled/container/stored water, but we'll   
   > be home, and that's what counts.   
      
   Glad you're okay.   
      
   Over the weekend, I got a report about evacuees from Oregon's McKenzie   
   River area (near Eugene).  90% of the Blue River community destroyed,   
   but the evacuees reporting were from a corner that was spared.   
      
   Interesting times indeed.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   As a colleague once told me about an incoming manager,   
   "He does very well in a suck-up, kick-down culture."   
      Bill in Vancouver   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)