Things like this are good for the soul.  This is a good reminder of
how dependent we are on modern day technoliogy(sp). We need to untune
from our dependencies, IMHO, once in a while.  That's one reason I
go camping, with a back pack in the woods.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Kim Brennan wrote:

> Well, it's late friday night here in Vienna, VA (western suburb of DC)
> and I've been without electricity for 26 hours now (aftermath of
> Hurricane Isabel). Should have gotten one of those little Honda
> generators, but somehow never got around to it during the main summer
> period....
>
> Despite the 110 foot tall trees in the backyard (50-60 of 'em), nothing
> happened here of any substantial note (yeah a whole lot of leaves,
> twigs and a few larger branches are on the grass, but nothing bigger
> and an inch in diameter and none of those anywhere close my Vanagons.)
>
> I understand my WV place (which effectively got the eye of the much
> degraded hurricane) weathered things even better (mainly cause early
> thunderstorms this year were more severe.)
>
> I finished the book I was reading last night (by flashlight)...none of
> the local bookstores were open to get something new (closed by the fire
> marshals, for lack of water near as I can gather.)
>
> So I'm sitting in the dark, working on a laptop (until it's battery
> runs down). The UPSes gave up the ghost many hours ago. Ah the joys of
> the modern age.
>
> We now return you to your regular Vanagon content.
>