*** Quoting Richard Webb from a message to Mike Roberts ***

 RW> Our neighbors with their all electric kitchens were moaning too,
 RW> while we had burgers on the grill, pancakes on the camp stoe the next
 RW> morning, and hot coffee to drink, bottled water of course.

You weren't standing there flipping the Pancakes with a big smile on Your 
face, were You Richard? ;-) Flipping the old pancakes and holding Your cup of 
coffee and giving them a nod of the head and a good mornin to ya.. 8-)

Heheh, then they stomp in the house and head off for a McMuffin someplace..

Probably not what You meant, but the picture I got. 

 RW> Hope you're still alright up there.

At this point I can say we were really blessed. It was a long night, Only 
because had to spend the night in the far end of the living room. I just did 
not trust those pines. I ended up listening to the scanner, which despite the 
mildness of what we did get here, was extremely intersting and active. Noisy, 
some branches down and 1 shingle I found this morning. Most odd and 
important, we really did not get much rain up by the lake. Almost like lake 
affect snow. That high wind seemed to blow that over us and drop it off in the 
city, And farther inland. Along with that important fact, NO Power loss here. 
So Basement was fine. According to the online grid, houses on streets around 
me were losing power, but we were blessed to have ours. County just lifted 
the state of emergency about an hour ago. Locally mostly as I thought, some 
downed trees, flash flooding and about 26000 out of power this morning. So 
for the most part, this part of the storm was kind to us. My heart does go 
out to those on the coast and to the folks getting that blizzard. We may get 
soaked the next few days, but thats like a splinter compared to what those 
poor folks have gotten and are waking up to. Did You see that Crane dangling 
in NY City? Crazy.. What did the engineer say when they asked him about why 
it was still up there with the storm coming? He said something like Well it 
was 46 stories up! Duh, that is why You should have brought it down. 

Have a Good One!
Mike

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