Hi Mike,   
      
   On Tue 2012-Oct-30 15:56, Mike Roberts (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
      
      
    RW> YEp, but a lot of Des MOines was without electrical power, took out   
    RW> their main generator during the flood, and no running water.   
    RW> Meanwhile I'm flipping pancakes on the coleman stove, the coffee's   
    RW> hot and tehy had to drive to the burbs for their Mickey D's fix or   
    RW> whatever.  WE were meanwhile doing pretty good.   
      
   MR> I can just imagine  So Funny!   
      
   IT was.  When my neighbor saw me rigging the catch system   
   for the output of the sump pump in preparation for   
   electricity he got a laugh out of it, but when I started   
   heating pans of water so that we could take cat baths, and   
   then shampooed my hair and redirected the output of the sump pump to rinse my   
   hair he decided that was a real idea, and   
   he started raiding my barrel for same purpose.  I let him   
   use the coleman stove to heat some water for cat baths for   
   him and his wife too.   
      
    RW> YEp, I'm monitoring the Salvation army ham radio network as well as   
    RW> usual.  Nope, I don't do television of any kind, old blind man   
    RW> doesn't have any interest, but I'll probably listen to some radio   
      
   MR> Good for You... My Mom was Blind. I can relate. She would sit up by   
   MR> the tv  and listen to be with the rest of the Family. But I think it   
   MR> was from her  that I got my liking of listening rather than always   
   MR> watching. She loved  Tapes of Old Time Radio I would collect and   
   MR> make for her and she loved her  little scanner and listening to talk   
   MR> radio. We'd all laugh, her favorite show  to listen to was Bruce   
   MR> Williams and he would always talk about Money  management and   
   MR> investing etc. We'd all say, Hey Ma, You don't have any money  why   
   MR> do You listen to him. She just loved it. Never invested a dime. But   
   MR> then  again she was always going to win the lottery, but never   
   MR> bought a ticket. :)    
      
     I know people like that.   
      
   My remote truck has done audio for television, and I've   
   worked in that side of it, but I haven't cared to own a   
   television now for years.  I'm so active with ham radio etc. that I don't miss   
   it.  I listen to shortwave radio for news, as well as the am and fm bands, npr   
   etc.  I remember the   
   last television we owned back around '97 we gave to my   
   daughter since my grandson was doing tv withdrawal and we   
   had to dust the stupid thing, we never turned it on.  Then   
   we had to hunt for the remote in boxes, we hadn't unpacked   
   it when we moved 6 months before then.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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