[Healeys] FW: Ramblings

ATIGHTPROD at aol.com ATIGHTPROD at aol.com
Wed Aug 31 20:31:01 MDT 2011


Glad you're safe and that your sense of humor is still intact and in fact,  
brimming over. Could have been way worse. 
Steven Kingsbury
 
 
In a message dated 8/31/2011 6:57:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ahbn6 at verizon.net writes:

OK  here's the deal. In mid-August we took our semi-annual trip to
Pennsylvania  Dutch territory to get our supply of the freshest and meats
that you would  ever want to buy. And, at the same time we were able to 
spend
some time  with the AHSTC Annual Encounter and visit with some great Healey
friends.  Unfortunately we had to come home to face:

1. August 18 during a  lightning storm, a bolt hit extremely close to our
house and fried the  Verizon FiOS interconnect boxes. We were without
telephone, TV and Internet  services until August 23 when those good folks
came back from strike and  had to completely rebuild our system. Got a nice
credit that almost pays  for the cell phone that I had to buy for my wife
when her old one went  kaput.

2. Hurricane Irene hit four days later and on August 27 at 10:30  23 we lost
electrical power along with over 300,000 in New Jersey. We just  got it back
today (31st) at 6:30pm. I opened my mailbox and found over 300  emails and a
lot of interesting conversations. Now you would think that  these events are
a catastrophe. NOT. We learned that you can take an  amazingly fast shower
when all you have is cold water. We learned that  Dollar Store candles last
an awful long time (hardly made a dent in them).  You can actually cook in a
chafing dish warmed with those little candles.  It is no big deal to keep
your cell phone charging in the car. (luckily our  van has hot taps). And,
since most of the neighbors have "modern" all  electric kitchens and we have
gas, we had guests for dinner each night and  they showed up in the morning
for their coffee. Used up a lot of that  meat.  Our next door neighbor whose
property is higher than ours had  mud slide down to my patio however, I had
some depressions in my front lawn  and was going to buy top soil to fix 
them.
Now, thanks to my neighbors mud,  I don't have to buy the soil. We learned
that there is still such a thing  as reading books. Put away four of them
over the past few days. We learned  that ice in a cooler will keep things
fresh for days. And, four bags of ice  in a stand-up freezer will keep 
frozen
foods frozen (and wine glasses and  gin properly chilled) I learned that 
cell
phones are OK for receiving  emails but not for any with more than a few
words. After a tour today of  what remains of the beaches, my wife has
decided that she does not want  that dream house on the ocean but is content
with one that is higher in  elevation.

3. Allstate set up trailers, tables and representatives at  Home Depot
parking lots to take insurance claims. All we could claim was  about $20.00
worth of cold cuts that we had to throw out. The claims  representative is
still laughing at us. Wonder why?

Now back to the  mundane things. Jokes will be flowing post haste to those
who are on my  joke lists and the Healey site will get some pretty good
updates over the  next week.


John  Sims
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