On Dec 7, 6:59*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
One more time, the midwest USA (in particular, Denver, CO)
is getting a snow storm before the rest of the country. Do
we have anyone in that area?

Are the roads passable? Is the power on? Are the critical
systems like grocery stores working?

Everyone OK?

Currently 4 degrees, going on subzero, no flaking, probably about 1/4"
of snow since last night. Southwest CO got nailed, 3' or better,
60-70 mph winds. And it's all headed east. Maybe 1-2" on my porch
rail right now.

As far as midwest, I consider Denver the eastern edge of the West.
Anything east of the Mississippi is the East, and you can keep it.

Stan

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2009 15:02:45 -0800 (PST) did write/type or cause to appear in
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On Dec 7, 6:59*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
One more time, the midwest USA (in particular, Denver, CO)
is getting a snow storm before the rest of the country. Do
we have anyone in that area?

Are the roads passable? Is the power on? Are the critical
systems like grocery stores working?

Everyone OK?

Currently 4 degrees, going on subzero, no flaking, probably about 1/4"
of snow since last night. Southwest CO got nailed, 3' or better,
60-70 mph winds. And it's all headed east. Maybe 1-2" on my porch
rail right now.

As far as midwest, I consider Denver the eastern edge of the West.
Anything east of the Mississippi is the East, and you can keep it.

It all depends on your situation. I'm from that part of the
country which considers Denver as "back East" some where. 'Over near
Chicago, I think.'
I'm reading Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money" and he has a
chapter on "Chiamerica" - how China and the US for a long time had a
symbiotic economic relationship - and everybody was getting rich (at
least, locally). But at one point he writes "For a time it seemed
like a marriage made in heaven. The East Chimericans did the saving,
the West Chimericans did the spending." Say what? The Americans did
the spending .. oh, he's got that east coast/Europe "Atlantic Centric"
perspective, where the US is "west" and the China is "east". But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.



tschus
pyotr
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pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.


But only for you folk on the backside of the earth ;-)


Mark Rand
RTFM

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:03:42 +0000, the infamous Mark Rand
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.


But only for you folk on the backside of the earth ;-)

Sorry, Mark, but Europe is the backside. Here's the map to prove it:

http://fwd4.me/7pq

--
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:32:12 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:03:42 +0000, the infamous Mark Rand
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.


But only for you folk on the backside of the earth ;-)

Sorry, Mark, but Europe is the backside. Here's the map to prove it:

http://fwd4.me/7pq


The cheek of it!

:-)

Mark Rand
RTFM

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:32:12 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:03:42 +0000, the infamous Mark Rand
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.


But only for you folk on the backside of the earth ;-)

Sorry, Mark, but Europe is the backside. Here's the map to prove it:

http://fwd4.me/7pq

That fetched a grin!

Let the Record show that Mark Rand on or
about Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:45:16 +0000 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:32:12 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:03:42 +0000, the infamous Mark Rand
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

But here
on the US Left coast, umm ... China is "west", and the "Americans" are
'east'.


But only for you folk on the backside of the earth ;-)

Sorry, Mark, but Europe is the backside. Here's the map to prove it:

http://fwd4.me/7pq


The cheek of it!

That's what was said when the naked man sat down to play the
piano.


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pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!