RN> Typo.  I omitted a zero.  That should be 3,000 cm., not 300.  So, in feet,
 RN> the pine trees surrounding me are all over 100 feet tall.

Now yer talking.
Those can cause big damage.

 BF>> Pity you didn't have any picture.

 RN> I'm modest.  (-:

Or missing a digital camera.
If you are intressed I can send you some from where I live but this requires an
email adress.

 RN> Only during hurricane season, where all in this area and along the eastern
 RN> and Gulf coast have to be prepared.

And then when all is done the next hurricane season starts again.
Must be a steady job there beeing a building worker

 BF>> How do you have time to do any "serious" work?

 RN> Repairing a damaged structure is serious work.

Naturally, but I ment, have you time to do anything else, like you job?

 RN> Nor I would you.  I'm alergic to cold weather and too old now to adapt to
 RN> it.

But we don't have to repair our houses all time, only cut grass and plow some
snow.  :-)

 RN> We have lots of power failures here and not all are weather-related.  Some
 RN> repairmen came over to me the other day when I had reported to the office
 RN> about a fuse that kept popping from its contact (sounds just like a
 RN> shotgun blast) on the power line and disrupting power to the only neighbor
 RN> I have across the street.  They told me that it was either squirrels or
 RN> snakes coming in contact with the power line.  I had to wonder, when they
 RN> said that, if I had DUMB stamped across my forehead.

Why should you? I don't know how the power-lines looks like over there but here
all low-voltage cables are twisted and in plastic so that a shortcut is impossible
but the 10 000 and 100 000 Volts cables are open and when a big bird flyes
between those lines there will be an electric arc and that sounds like a shotgun
blast and the bird will naturally die.
But we don't have snakes climbing in the poles.

 BF>> Then we arn't almost able to get outside and then it's good to have a 4
 BF>> WD Chevy S10.

 RN> I sometimes wish I had one of those, but it's not a necessity in the
 RN> flatlands, unless one is planning to drive through an area where that
 RN> would be handy.

It's very handy here when it is snowing and the snowploughs are busy plowing
the main roads. Then they don't have much time to fix the small roads but with
4 WD it's no problem to drive. And I have towed a couple of cars up of the ditches.
And if the rain keeps coming as it has for the past 2 weeks I presumably have use
of the 4 WD soon as well.
If I haven't told you I live 10 km from the nearest village out in the
woods and theese
roads around here are not at highest priority.

//Bj”rn

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