On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:41:12 -0800 (PST), Melvin Purvis
<uga88vt90@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Spent the weekend laid up in a truck stop on I-75 in Georgetown KY.
I-75 was closed south of there. On that Monday, I made it to
Knoxville TN. That Tuesday, I finally made it into the fiberglass
plant in Winder GA.
>We're a month shy of the fifteenth anniversary of the Blizzard of '93,
>which still stands as the biggest blizzard I've personally ever been
>through. I was still in grad school at Vajenyatek in Blacksburg when
>the storm hit and I wound up spending at least one night sleeping on
>the floor of my office and drinking bottle after bottle of Cappio
>bottled cappuccino and eating Cheetos because that's what I had
>squirreled away in my cabinet. By the time the storm finished, we had
>something like five feet of snow pushed up against the doors of my
>building.
>
>My father, a professor at Tech, decided "I Must Clear The Driveway".
>His half-mile-long, steep, unpaved gravelled driveway. With only his
>blade-equipped pickup truck. And, like a lot of idiots, he wound up
>having a heart attack. Some guys had to be fetched out from their
>houses using front-end loaders and whatever heavy equipment could make
>it through the snow.
>
>Mom called me at my apartment when the storm was just really socking
>in to tell me Dad was in the hospital, having had his heart attack,
>and told me under no cir***stances was I to try to walk to the
>hospital to check up on him. Before she said that part, it hadn't
>even *occurred* to me to walk six miles through total whiteout
>conditions all the way to the hospital. Afterwards...
>
>Well, I was picked up by the police and labeled "a total fscking
>idiot" about a half mile away from the hospital. They gave me a ride
>the rest of the way and my father, who was resting comfortably, just
>about had another heart attack when he saw me come in, dressed in my
>heaviest coat and swaddled in scarf after scarf. After a while they
>told me was fine, needed to rest, and made me leave, but at least the
>cops gave me a ride to campus and I rode out the rest of the storm in
>my office. Drinking endless bottles of cappucino and gibbering like
>an idot.
>
>Good times, good times.
--
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who
does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
Sir Karl Popper
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