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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Whenever I try to picture a stormy Maine, the old Stephen King movie 
stereotype appears.  Though it sounds like right now, the scene really could 
be that austere.  Good luck ....bobf 


--- On Sun, 9/28/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> Subject: Kyle
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 10:14 AM
> bob ford wrote:
> > Susan, I don't know anything about canning fish. 
> I was just wondering if you were getting any of that storm
> thats hitting maine ...bobford
> >
> >   
> Yep.  Just had a 2-day nor'easter that dumped 7"
> here where I am, now 
> beginning to get Kyle's offerings.  Usually like to
> listen to radio on 
> Sundays, some good programs on here then, but yesterday and
> today 
> hopeless for radio, nothing but flood warnings...our town
> is already out 
> 3 (small) bridges from Hannah, so suppose by now more are
> gone as 
> several of the remaining ones were damaged.  Walking down
> the road this 
> morning to get milk I saw the neighbor's ducks swimming
> into his barn, 
> so some not so fortunate as I.
> 
> I last evening when I was out choring that there is a new
> 18" cut in the 
> driveway, so suppose by the time the rain quits it will be
> impossible to 
> drive out, will have to fork over $$ on this one, I see. 
> Good thing I'm 
> in no hurry to go somewhere.
> 
> Weather guy calls for another 5-7" here from Kyle with
> gusts to 70+mph, 
> so likely the power will be off for a while yet (gotta love
> laptops and 
> oldfashioned phone lines!) , depending on where trees/limbs
> go down.  
> We're used to that.......and had some serious wind in
> the early summer 
> so most of the weak stuff should be down for now.  In any
> event, it's 
> usually ice that gets us the worst, these ocean storms
> aren't usually 
> big here:  like a lot of other sorts of troublemakers, they
> don't seem 
> to be so fond of cool/cold water & air.
> 
> Having said all that, I hate wind.  Grew up in midwest:
> constant wind, 
> tornadoes, lodged crops, trying to clean chicken houses
> with litter 
> blowing back in your face.......
> 
> Susan Jane, enjoying a nice fire while Kyle blows on