Acidus wrote:
Elonka is hardcore! At least you are making the best of it.

Heh, thanks.

As an update, things are slowly returning back to normal here. All of my co-workers' homes have services restored, though the utility company website is still showing about 10,000 homes without power. The weather outside is dry, but bitterly cold (around 10 degrees F, with wind chill).

Things at our office are slowly coming back up to normal speed. We still have blankets and pillows strewn around, plus there's a flu bug that's now working its way through the building, but other than that things are returning to routine.

Next on my "backlog" list is catching up with various internet projects, such as an ArbCom case at Wikipedia, and some Kryptos stuff.

Thanks to everyone that sent along well-wishes,

Elonka :)

RE: St. Charles storm update - Monday

Millions of people in the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and eastern Missouri are being warned that conditions will deteriorate Friday afternoon, and the storm could spread as far east as Ohio and New York over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

"This is a one-in-maybe-15- to 25-year event," CNN severe weather expert Chad Myers said Friday of the forecast freezing rain, sleet and snow. "The big story will be how many roads are shut down, airports are shut down and how many power lines are down because of the ice this weekend," Myers added .

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, up to St. Louis, Missouri, could see "devastating consequences," Myers warned Friday. "You won't be able to get in or out of St. Louis tomorrow."

Same tune, different state.... At least I've got plenty of winter supplies from when I was snowed in, in Albuquerque!

Burrowing in before the blizzard...

Elonka :)

CNN: Ice storm threatens chaos

The details are set for [the University High School of West Los Angeles, Class of 1976 30-year] reunion. They are as follows;

Date: November 11, 2006
Time: 6:30pm- 12:00am
Location: Friars Club, Beverly Hills.

...class representatives are Leslie Messer Ward, Terrence Duffy, Debbie Brant Gothelf, Suzanne Fremont Bethurum, and Lisa Agay. To receive an invitation please contact The Reunion Committee, Inc at 661-259-5999 or www.reunioncommittee.com

This information was *really* hard to find at the classmates.com website, so I'm blogging it here so that it can be properly Googled...

Elonka

Uni High School, West Los Angeles, Class of 1976 reunion plans

] WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged
] Thursday that he saw no "smoking gun, concrete evidence"
] of ties between Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida terror
] network, but insisted that Iraq had dangerous weapons and
] needed to be disarmed by force.
]
] Speaking at a State Department news conference, Powell
] openly disagreed with a private think tank report which
] maintained that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the
] United States. And the secretary defended the case he
] made before the United Nations for a U.S.-led war to
] force Saddam from power.

Powell Refutes Think-Tank Report on Iraq