[Coco] Eye of Ike approaching my home

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

The USPS is no competition.  The motto was rejected by the Postal Workers Union several decades ago.  (My first wife's husband used to be a shop steward, it's an industry I have contact with).  The only reason the motto is remembered is because of old movies on TCM and the carvings on some old buildings.  Postal workers are special because killing one is still a federal capital crime.  Killing anybody else is local.
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

"What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this:  If you see a guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to slow him down, then one into his brain to finish him off".  Aaron Allston, _Sidhe Devil_

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: KARL SEFCIK <cdiman7 at flash.net>
> Rog,
> I think UPS is trying to compete too much with the post office 
> "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night".
> Dude, stay safe, our prayers are with you. The Dallas arfea just started getting 
> rain about 2PM. I'm a skywatcher here for one of the tv stations, and there was 
> no rain overnight, I wa sup all night at work keeping an ear open for falling 
> raindrops,lol.
> Karl
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 9/13/08, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Eye of Ike approaching my home
> To: "cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 4:35 PM
> 
> We still have power for now, amazingly.  Trees are down, the roads 
> are covered with debree and so forth.  The winds are very rough.  The 
> trees are whipping around madly as you'd expect.  My 8 yeard old son 
> and I have been hanging out on the "porch" with digital video trying 
> to capture something - what, I don't know, maybe memories.  I'll 
> update later if anything more drastic happens.
> 
> In another story, UPS sent me directly towards the north part of the 
> eye this morning even after I asked to stay local; they sent me to 
> Henderson TX as the eye was not too far south of there.  I delivered 
> 4 packages in these conditions.  The rain was being sucked across the 
> road at times.  It was hard to handle the truck at times but I safely 
> returned to the center and then back home after a total of 3 
> hours.  I veered around numerous trees covering (luckily) half of the 
> road in some places.
> 
> Wow.
> 
> 
> 
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