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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2006Baha - Singh Purr Request
As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the area of Buffalo, NY, USA. Thursday some time it started snowing. By some time Friday The Thirteenth, 2006, the city had 23 inches of wet snow. The wet snow stuck to trees, and pulled trees down. This also pulled down power lines. Power was out (in Buffalo and surrounding counties) for about 350,000 or more people. I found out about this snow storm about 3 PM on Friday. I live about 100 miles east of Buffalo. Knowing nothing about the storm, I was doing some shopping on a nice partly cloudy 50 degree day when I find out Buffalo is burried. I have tried to reach Baha by telephone. It rings, and no answer. Typical of lines down. The ringing noise you hear is generated at the phone company. And, there is no further information at this point. They could be home. At work. In a ditch in the car. Or at a public shelter. They could this, that, the other, or anyone's guess. Does anyone else have more information? I'm seriously considering driving there on Monday to see if there is anything I can do to help. In the meantime, prayers, purrs, and best wishes are all requested. The last storm of such intensity, in NYS, took about a week to start getting power back on. Two weeks in some areas. I do have a printer, though it is poor quality and quite cantankerous. If I do go to Buffalo on Monday or some other time, I'll try to get my old klunk to print. Anyone who wishes to send purrs, best wishes, etc. Post them to the board (here) and I'll print them out and deliver them by hand. Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are easier to print.  SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . Heavy weather can be scary! Sending our best purrs for Baha and family (and everyone else in the affected area, too). Please do let us know you find out. Dan and the Highland Kitties > As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the > area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are > easier to print. Yes, I'll let you know when I find out anything. The news guys say power should be up by Wednesday. I know that a house can get really cold in a couple days. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . Heavy weather can be scary! Sending our best purrs for Baha and family (and everyone else in the affected area, too). Please do let us know you find out. Dan and the Highland Kitties Stormin Mormon wrote: > As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the > area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are > easier to print. > Yes, I'll let you know when I find out anything. The news guys say > power should be up by Wednesday. I know that a house can get really > cold in a couple days. There's something to be said for wood-burning fireplaces and the old fashioned coal-burning furnaces that you fed by shovelling! (Even if you have gas heat, or your kitchen range burns gas, even oven thermostats are almost always electric, these days.) Purrs and best wishes for Baha and her family. Kudos to your for your concern and your efforts. A hint - If you copy the messages you want to print and paste them to a blank page in a word processing program, such as Word or Word Perfect, you can print several short messages on the same page, thus conserving paper and ink, and requiring less storage space if they want to keep the messages. BTW, if you do this, you can also cut out the parts that don't need to be passed on, like this paragraph. ;-) Joy > As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the > area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are > easier to print. Yes, that's a very good idea. But, I figure that just print em off will get the idea across. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . Purrs and best wishes for Baha and her family. Kudos to your for your concern and your efforts. A hint - If you copy the messages you want to print and paste them to a blank page in a word processing program, such as Word or Word Perfect, you can print several short messages on the same page, thus conserving paper and ink, and requiring less storage space if they want to keep the messages. BTW, if you do this, you can also cut out the parts that don't need to be passed on, like this paragraph. ;-) Joy > As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the > area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are > easier to print. I hope everything is ok there! Last report I heard was there were still approx. 250,000 w/o power, and that the power company had brought in at least 100 crews from all over the rest of the state to help in get the power back on. We wish them good luck, and let us know if we can do anything! Mishi and the Bridgeport NY Clowder (who are right now watching a lake effect storm coming south towards us.) >As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the >area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are >easier to print. I'll admit I have no clue where Bridgeport, NY is. One friend of mine suggested to call the police in that area. Or the Red Cross. See if I can figure what's the biggest need. The big need may very well be to keep the roads clear for emergency vehicles (in other words, stay home). It's gonna be rough, cause I think the phone lines came down with the power lines. I'm going to try postal mail, if I don't make it into Buffalo. Just on the odd chance that they get the US Snail moving some how or other. But that will be delayed by several days, also. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . I hope everything is ok there! Last report I heard was there were still approx. 250,000 w/o power, and that the power company had brought in at least 100 crews from all over the rest of the state to help in get the power back on. We wish them good luck, and let us know if we can do anything! Mishi and the Bridgeport NY Clowder (who are right now watching a lake effect storm coming south towards us.) On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:06:13 GMT, "Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61-&spamblock*-@hotmail.com> wrote: >As Baha has written at least once on the kitty board, she lives in the >area of Buffalo, NY, USA. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >Format note. Since I'm out Outlook Express, top posted best wishes are >easier to print. All snipped in the interests of printers :-) Purrs & Prayers to all in Bufalo and sourrounds, especially to Liz & her family. Yoiwe >Thursday some time it started snowing. By some time Friday The >Thirteenth, 2006, the city had 23 inches of wet snow. The wet snow [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Typical of lines down. The ringing noise you hear is generated at the >phone company. Purrs that she and Louie weren't overly inconvenienced by the storm. I hope they haven't lost power for a week! Purrs on the way from the Northwest to the Northeast that Baha and family, both furred and bare, weather the storm and get services restored soonest. Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe The (below) message is from Liz, to all on the board. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . Hi everyone, First of all, many thanks to Chris for his concern, and for coming out to look after us Monday. He brought me some printouts of your respones, and you all are the next but not the least to thank, for all your expressions of concern for me and Louie and the babies. The cats have been better sports than we've been and have been our little comforter sand cheerleaders. They've snugggled and purred and kneaded and played and distracted us from our excile from modern conveneiences these five days. We're sore from cleaning up and hungry after geing delayed our paychecks for five days. Our money before today (monday) went to feed the cats. Friends lent us their showers, their couches for football games (for much of the city was powered up in only hours) and their groceries. Chris, thang you for the groceries too; and my friends Dennis and Nancy who helped look after us. Half an oak tree in our back yard just splintered off and pulled down the lines that power our block. It will be a few days beore we have our juice again. God only knows when we'll have our phone. Louie just bought me a cell phone today after threatinging or organize a sit in to get his check. I still havn't been paid and I don't know when I'll be back to work. I checked at the law firm and ran into he boss, Dan, checking on the power (still off). This wonderful man who hardly knows me handed me a hundred dollar bill and just said pay him back when I got paid. I'm not even a full employee yet. Dan not only deserves thanks, he deserves a medal. So we're recovering, cleaning the damage, and getting back to living. It has been a blessing in its odd ways - our neighbors have been come real neighbros and we are reminded that we must take care of one another. And I might have been with Louie and the cats in the dark but we've got each other. and there's a lot of love going on. I will gladly trade my check and all the inconveniences for all the good things that we are reminded of. A lot of tree and power damage but no structural damage, and we're here, we're alive and okay. Thanks to everyone who's sent purrs prayers, and their good thoughts to us and our poor burried Buffalo, because they've worked. the sun is out. Our ISP is down so I'll be away for awhile, but I'll be back when the power's back. Blessed be Baha Many thanks again >The (below) message is from Liz, to all on the board. I'm glad that they're doing fine. Thank you for letting us know! |
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