ML>> i remember this... i was in Rantoul about an hour south of 
 ML>> Chicago when i was  in the USAF at ICBM school... my young wife, 
 ML>> first son and i lived in a small  second floor apartment... we 
 ML>> got snowed in that weekend because the drift came  up and covered 
 ML>> our doorway... the worst 

 NB>> How dramatic... and probably more than a bit scary... 

 ML> we didn't even know until we tried to go out a few days later... 
 ML> no way to open  the door so instead we made more tacos and drank 
 ML> more beer ;) 

 NB> Gotta make the best of a bad situation...  ;)

yup... it could have been a lot worse... in some ways, it actually was but we
made do as best we could...

 NB>> Did your commanding officers understand...?  

 ML> they didn't have much choice ;)
 ML> but our place was right beside the base, too... 

 NB> Ah, so they KNEW what sort of weather was holding you in...

most assuredly... especially since they were as stuck as we were... i don't
have a clue what folks in the barracks did but i know they had a real battle
to walk to the chow hall and back /if/ they even went... no clue if the chow
hall was even open...

 ML> at one point, we couldn't even  see the base there was so much
 ML> snow... i definitely know what a whiteout is  from that 
 ML> experiance... 

 NB> And you'll never forget it, I'm sure...!

you are right about that... for more than just that one reason... that weekend
was not pretty in several manners :/

 ML> we were very glad that the electric stayed on as the  place was 
 ML> all electric... no gas or any other form of heat was available to  
 ML> us... 

 NB> That was indeed fortunate...  :)

yeah... no way to build a fire for heating or cooking in a wooden two story
apartment building and be safe about it at all...

 ML> at least we had plenty of food... the guys had brought about 10 
 ML> pounds of  hamburger and all the fixin's for tacos and burritos... 
 ML> that was when i  invented breakfast burritos... heat some taco 
 ML> meat and scramble some eggs into it... spoon it all into a 
 ML> tortilla and munch away... nothing like today's "schtuff" called a 
 ML> breakfast taco... yuck and double yuck... 

 NB> You have to start with quality ingredients for the finished product
 NB> to be any good...  :)

very true! :)

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