Thanks Nora,
All I have for beer in the fridge is two bottles of Corona that I got for
my friend when he helped me move into this apartment in May. I'll pretend I
live in Baja 20 years ago when there were no restrictions on collecting
shells. (I'm not sure there are restrictions in Baja but I've read that
Bahia Concepcion is fairly polluted and its sealife was declining.)

Hopefully, there'll be some kind of 4-wheel drive vehicle that can take me
to work in the hospital. I just called my unit, and the poor guys on 2nd
shift last night are still there with no immediate prospect of relief. This
is a locked "high maintenance" psych ward where I'm due to begin work
within a couple of weeks. Whether patient or staff, I think I'D be getting
stir crazy right about now. However, there's all that nice overtime those
dudes are getting.

Well, I'm back to my Architectonica,
Enjoy temperate Calgary,
David

>Hope things clear up soon for you!  If you have kids I'm sure they will be in
>heaven - missing school and building snowforts instead!
>In the meantime pretend you live in Nova Scotia and just reach in the fridge
>for a Moosehead and sit back and read a good book.
>
>NoraBryan
>Calgary, AB
>CANADA
>
>David Kirsh wrote:
>
>> For those of you who look up once in a while from preoccupation with
>> counting plicae and notice the weather: North Carolina just got hit with a
>> record-breaking snowstorm.
>>
>> There was 18.2 inches of snow at Raleigh-Durham Airport compared to the
>> 1927 record of 17.8. Some spots have up to 22 inches and the drifts can be
>> up to 5 feet. Everything is shut down. I tried to go to my job at the
>> hospital and got about a hundred feet in one hour of rocking back and
>> forth; then I gave up. Can't call in because the phone lines are down or
>> something. Even the interstates were impassable after roadcrews had cleared
>> them a couple of hours before (this was the situation until at least 1pm).
>>
>> Cold will continue until at least the weekend with wind chill going down to
>> 11 Fahrenheit because of wind gusts to 30mph. Possible power outages in
>> next couple of days.
>>
>> Governor Hunt declared a state of emergency for the entire state.
>>
>> Friends of seashells in the Northeast, this storm is headed your way.
>>
>> Stay warm,
>> David Kirsh
>> Durham, NC