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As of Sunday morning 9am my PM's are still not working. Apparently whatever I send seems to get through. However while I am receiving replies there is no content within those replies received.

(So Robin and Angel I received your responses yesterday and today but I cannot see what you said,)

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Hit the word "advertisement" on the right hand side of the block, and the words will come up. But mine seems to be working as of 0826 PST. My power on the other hand is another manner, as those of us in the Puget Sound region of Washington state have been hit with a winter blast from the Northwest Territories, and close to a foot of snow, with another 8" expected before Tuesday, and we are experiencing massive power outages due to falling trees, so many (including me) have been without power for a day or more, and hence without Internet. First the Forums, then the PMs, now the Internet-- I think I'm just going to go shovel snow!
VR, Russ

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stay warm man, one of the neighbor kids shoveled a path to my porch and cleaned it off for me. Currently can't tell my truck from my woodpile everything is under 8 inches of white crap. Most snow we've seen up here at one time in more than a decade and more is on the way.

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Patrick, I will-- so far so good. We have nearly 11" down here in GH. Problem is, all the fir and maple trees are cracking off and screwing up the power lines. I've seen heavy snow like this before here, but not coming in repeated shots. My internet (and power) has been ok now since 0700 PST, but I suspect it wont last-- I just checked the PM board, and all seems to be working now. Funny how dependent we are on electricity. Last night we all sat around by candlelight trying to figure out what the pioneers did for entertainment at night! Unfortunately, the weather is so bad that the largest model show in the NW might be cancelled next weekend (at the MoF in Seattle). We're waiting to see.
VR, Russ

The southern parts of Sweden had bad snowstorms early January for two years in a row in the 1980'ies. Road travel was almost impossible due to snow drifts, electricity was cut, army called in with BV-206 to distribute food and oil for heating, phone lines down et.c. It was abig mess.
What did they do for entertainment with no electricity and no TV?
Weeelll, let me phrase it like this: There was a significant increase in the number of babies delivered 9 months later ....
Go figure about what the pioneers did ....

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The southern parts of Sweden had bad snowstorms early January for two years in a row in the 1980'ies. Road travel was almost impossible due to snow drifts, electricity was cut, army called in with BV-206 to distribute food and oil for heating, phone lines down et.c. It was a big mess.
What did they do for entertainment with no electricity and no TV?
Weeelll, let me phrase it like this: There was a significant increase in the number of babies delivered 9 months later ....
Go figure about what the pioneers did ....

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So what your saying Robin is I have 4 kids and because of these bloody British soaps on TV I could of had 8

You know, I typed a line right after the last sentence which said to the effect--"...maybe that's why they had those big families back then"... but I deleted it out of a sense of propriety. You guys sure filled in the rest of my thinking though!!
😆🤔
VR, Russ