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 AM 8:44       The second wave of the ice storm has
 passed.  The third wave--which will be the worst in that
it is expected we will get 1/2 inch more of ice and then
sleet mixed with snow accumulating to 5 inches, and 
then below-freezing temp's for the rest of the week--
is due to arrive later today (Sunday) and to continue
into Monday.  Early this morning this building was 
without electricity for approximately 105 minutes.
I decided to turn the heat off.  About AM 3:32 the
electricity came back on.  I set the heat near 55.
AM 8:55          It is presently set at 62.  Similar to 
"my" heatpump system back in Gainesville, FL, the 
electric furnace here heats to about 4 degrees above
what it is set at.
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Yesterday I turned my computer on and let Zone Alarm
do its weekly scan.  During that period of time I called
Tom Montag and spoke with him for some while.
I told him, among numerous other things, about the
storm here.  I also gave him my new address and my
cell phone number, and told him I'd set up a deal with
SBC Global for highspeed Internet service and that I
should be getting equipment from them by Friday the 19th
but that I had a feeling the bad weather might delay that.
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I did contact my sister, but have ever since been
concerned about their decision to use the gas stove for
heat at their place, but I am unable to get back to them.
I suspect the call towers have been frozen dead.
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Before the storm, she brought over several items
(along with the remainder of my food), one of which
is a fancy screwdriver.  Since then I have found my
small hammer, my 1/4-inch foot-long screwdriver,
my wire nippers, and my pliers I had been using in
my mo-ho in G'ville for removing the caps from too-
tightly-secured bottles of water.
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A longer electric outage may be in the offing.
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On the day I moved in I purchased a bed frame
and a twin box spring and mattress, and an oak
book-shelf-with-light headboard at Springfield's
Mattress Outlet.  My two nephews set it all up 
for me after one of them had brought it to this
apartment complex in his pickup.  Yesterday I
found a good use for the box the bed frame had
come in, placing it (though not quite all of it),
after I had flattened it out, on the rug floor in the
bedroom's closet.  I did need to use a section of
the plastic which had been wrapped around either
the mattress or the box spring in order to cover
the entire length of that closet.  I then put items
in there and closed the closet's folding doors.
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It is bright outside but solidly overcast.  In spite of
all the ice, birds are about.  I've seen what appeared
to be warblers.  Earlier I heard a crow.
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Finally no more "Call failed" messages.  I accessed
a voicemail from my eldest sister, sent a voicemail
back, and then called her.  She is now, I am pleased
to say, at Ronald's house.  She told me to call our
sister in Mobile.  I told her I would, and that I had
tried to earlier, but that that call also failed.  I called
my youngest sister immediately.  We conversed a
good while, mostly about the day I arrived here,
at apartment 12. 



Brian A. J. Salchert