Vee, I'm with you on this darn cold. I live north of Syracuse. Yesterday morning abt 5:50am I woke to go to the little girls room,.I looked over at my clock nothing, the light wasn't there, glanced out into the hall no night light either, My worst fear, no power. Grapped my flashlight that I keep by my bed. Out I go to check out the problem, which I already know, no power and very cold. Went into my computer room looked at the temp. 22 below. Woke my husband who was in a daze from the sudden yell from me. Please get the generator going, I need coffee and heat. It seems that the grid our power lines come from is jinxed. I can't remember anytime in my 63 yrs the temp being this cold. We lived in Lake Placid area for 10yrs it was cold but nothing like this. Oh well, when spring comes and all the flowers, trees start to bud we'll all forget this until next time. Keep warm all Penny

Hey Penny, You really know the feeling don't you girl! Note: at my age of 72 I can call anyone younger than I "girl!" Oh my goodness you live north of Syracuse? I live north of Buffalo and you know what a reputation Buffalo has regarding snow and nasty weather stuff. But what I seem to recall is that Syracuse has more snow dumped on the city on an anual basis than Buffalo ever did (Blizzard of '77 possibly excluded). Ah yes, as we've learned over the years, this too shall pass once again and there will be apple blossoms blooming in the spring. All we need to do is think past a probable mid-March blizzard and the rest of it is a piece of cake. Think along these lines according to a song of yesterday: It's spring again The birds on the wing again Start to sing again The old melody . . . However, the birds right now would have to sing very loudly to drown out the droan of my furnace going on and on! vee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:47 PM Subject: [FOLKS] (no subject) > Vee, > I'm with you on this darn cold. I live north of Syracuse. Yesterday morning > abt 5:50am I woke to go to the little girls room,.I looked over at my clock > nothing, the light wasn't there, glanced out into the hall no night light either, > My worst fear, no power. Grapped my flashlight that I keep by my bed. Out I > go to check out the problem, which I already know, no power and very cold. Went > into my computer room looked at the temp. 22 below. Woke my husband who was > in a daze from the sudden yell from me. Please get the generator going, I need > coffee and heat. It seems that the grid our power lines come from is jinxed. I > can't remember anytime in my 63 yrs the temp being this cold. We lived in > Lake Placid area for 10yrs it was cold but nothing like this. Oh well, when > spring comes and all the flowers, trees start to bud we'll all forget this until > next time. > > Keep warm all > Penny > >