Blackout

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, bettedavisgreen at a... wrote:
 > There were three country churches in a small Texas town: The 
> Presbyterian church, the Lutheran church and the Catholic church. 
> 
> Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels. 
> 
> One day, the Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what 
> to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration 
> they determined that the squirrels were predestined to be there 
> and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will. 

Hehe!  Well that explains it then--it's a Presbyterian church. ;) 

On the blackout (since that's the subject line), I too have mostly 
heard news about NYC, but I think that's to be expected as it's the 
biggest city in the country and all of the major networks are 
headquartered there.  On my local news, however, there have been 
stories about looting at liquor stores and other businesses in 
Ottawa (I thought Canadians were better behaved than that!) and the 
fact that it's pretty chaotic in Detroit as well.  There have also 
been a lot of long stories on the local news and in the paper about 
how the Philly area and South Jersey dodged the bullet and didn't 
get included in the blackout--which makes one wonder why the same 
safety precautions couldn't have protected the areas that WERE 
affected.

When there was a completely unrelated blackout here in Philly in the 
Center City area on Tuesday, one of the biggest concerns of the 
police seemed to be Jeweler's Row, where there is a concentration of 
jewelry stores and especially diamond dealers.  The cops were down 
there making sure every establishment had a backup security system, 
and there were also cops all up and down the major streets directing 
traffic to make up for the signals having no power.  (Although you'd 
think that if the city was going to invest in emergency backup 
generators for something, getting a system for the traffic signals 
would be a pretty good investment and free up the cops during times 
like this.)

On the night of the big blackout north of here, my husband noted 
that for some reason, that night on Charlie Rose, the Conan O'Brien 
interview was being shown again which we'd just seen the night 
before.  I reminded him that with the blackout and all, it was 
highly unlikely that Charlie Rose had been able to record a new 
segment.  He sheepishly admitted that this was true.  It was all too 
easy for us to forget what folks in NYC and in other affected areas 
were going through.  I hope everything gets back to normal for folks 
soon!

--Barb

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