DeTomaso Mailing List: January 2001, Message #42

Geez Mike, sounds like you'll have some good war stories for Vegas!  Is
there a wood burning stove on the Trusty wish-list?! :-)
Glad you survived pal!
MD

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Trusty [SMTP:miketrusty@email.msn.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 31, 2000 1:17 PM
> To:	Antenucci, Dennis; Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: Mike Trusty snowed in!
> 
> Dennis said:
> 
> I hear Mike Trusty is snowed in for the winter in Arkansas WITH NO
> POWER....Mike, you and/or Dave Williams got the power turned back on yet?
> Need us to send ya anything?
> MD
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> Well, you were right about the NO POWER.  It was ICE not snow.  I have
> been
> out of power since Christmas day.  With temperatures in the 20's and an
> all-electric house it hasn't been that much fun.  Lets just say that this
> will test your marriage.
> 
> If it hadn't been for my little generator to keep one room above 45 it
> would
> have been really bad.  You ask, why didn't you go and visit someone with
> power.  Well I live where there is only two ways out and both were
> completely blocked until Wednesday.  A group of us men packing chain saws
> cut our way out the two miles of road that looked like a war zone.
> 
> A power company repair truck tried to make it out to our area on Wednesday
> and ended up at the bottom of a thirty foot deep gorge on top of my
> friends
> Chevy SUV.
> They didn't come back until yesterday.
> 
> Got out yesterday for food and shower.  When I got back the power company
> was set up in front of the house setting new poles and wiring.  PBTL.  To
> top it all off, there was a note in the door where Dave Williams had come
> by
> to check on me and mentioned that you were concerned.  Friends are great,
> thanks for thinking.
> 
> And Kirby, no work on the Pantera.  I spent the last six days peaking out
> from under about 8" of blankets huddled with my wife.  We have decided to
> not talk to each other from the next to days. :)
> 
> You ask what was the worst part, the shock of setting down on a 28-degree
> toilet seat in a pitch-black toilet.  Yow.
> 
> Glad to be back.  We have a lot to be thankful for living in our
> comfortable
> little world.  Everyone needs a little problem once in a while to keep one
> humble.
> 
> Mike
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