John:
Amazing. This goes to show that when someone, in this case you and your wife,
respond in a positive manner to events that one has absolutely no control
over, one can adapt to anything. No stress, just plain acceptance of the
situation and make the best of it. Way to go.
Jean
> From: ahbn6 at verizon.net
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:49:20 -0400
> Subject: [Healeys] FW: Ramblings
>
> 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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