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["Wolfe, Joanna" <wolfe AT oup-usa.org>]

I lost power at 3:30 yesterday, it was still out when I left for work
this morning at 7am
Of course my neighbor who fronts Garrett has power - it is so
annoying!
Joanna

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> From:         childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov
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> Sent:         Friday, September 19, 2003 11:23 AM
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> We lost power in Northgate Park area of Durham at around noon,
> didn't
> get it back until about 7:30 this morning. And those ice storm
> remnant
> branches wiped out our metal front porch roof awning. Ah well.
> Suppose
> that's what insurance is for...
> 
> Oh - and a note to hold dear when the Yankees start blathering about
> how
> Southerners can't handle snow:
> 
> A friend (who used to live here) from MD called this AM to find out
> how
> things were here. She says MD around DC was in a state of complete
> panic, with utterly NO clue of how to cope with a hurricane. They
> closed
> schools two hours early on TUESDAY,  the public transporation
> stopped
> running, and parents were calling the radio stations with questions
> like
> "how do I help my childen deal with all their fear when I'm afraid
> too?"
> All the govt stuff shut down completely for all day Thursday, i.e.
> WAY
> early - local, state, even Federal! They didn't even get rain until
> 8pm
> Thursday night.  And folks apparently had no clue of what to buy at
> the
> grocery store, just grabbing whatever. My friends waltzed right over
> to
> the shelf-milk & sterno, loaded up on non-perishables & went merrily
> home to enjoy the chaos in (relative) comfort.
> 
> Paula
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