ML>> i remember this... i was in Rantoul about an hour south of    
    ML>> Chicago when i was  in the USAF at ICBM school... my young wife,    
    ML>> first son and i lived in a small  second floor apartment... we    
    ML>> got snowed in that weekend because the drift came  up and covered    
    ML>> our doorway... the worst    
      
    NB>> How dramatic... and probably more than a bit scary...    
      
    ML> we didn't even know until we tried to go out a few days later...    
    ML> no way to open  the door so instead we made more tacos and drank    
    ML> more beer ;)    
      
    NB> Gotta make the best of a bad situation...  ;)   
      
   yup... it could have been a lot worse... in some ways, it actually was but we   
   made do as best we could...   
      
    NB>> Did your commanding officers understand...?     
      
    ML> they didn't have much choice ;)   
    ML> but our place was right beside the base, too...    
      
    NB> Ah, so they KNEW what sort of weather was holding you in...   
      
   most assuredly... especially since they were as stuck as we were... i don't   
   have a clue what folks in the barracks did but i know they had a real battle   
   to walk to the chow hall and back /if/ they even went... no clue if the chow   
   hall was even open...   
      
    ML> at one point, we couldn't even  see the base there was so much   
    ML> snow... i definitely know what a whiteout is  from that    
    ML> experiance...    
      
    NB> And you'll never forget it, I'm sure...!   
      
   you are right about that... for more than just that one reason... that weekend   
   was not pretty in several manners :/   
      
    ML> we were very glad that the electric stayed on as the  place was    
    ML> all electric... no gas or any other form of heat was available to     
    ML> us...    
      
    NB> That was indeed fortunate...  :)   
      
   yeah... no way to build a fire for heating or cooking in a wooden two story   
   apartment building and be safe about it at all...   
      
    ML> at least we had plenty of food... the guys had brought about 10    
    ML> pounds of  hamburger and all the fixin's for tacos and burritos...    
    ML> that was when i  invented breakfast burritos... heat some taco    
    ML> meat and scramble some eggs into it... spoon it all into a    
    ML> tortilla and munch away... nothing like today's "schtuff" called a    
    ML> breakfast taco... yuck and double yuck...    
      
    NB> You have to start with quality ingredients for the finished product   
    NB> to be any good...  :)   
      
   very true! :)   
      
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