Hello Bj”rn!

Jul 04 11:58 03, Bj”rn Forsstr”m wrote to Roger Nelson:

 BF> Now yer talking.

It's about time!  (-:

 BF> Those can cause big damage.

Yes.  I still have that 18 foot (540 cm) pine tree limb laying near where I
park my car.  I haven't been able to tend to it yet because the weather
won't cooperate.  It has been raining all day here today and the last two
days.

 BF> Or missing a digital camera.

Yes, it is missing.  I'm waiting for the prices to come down some more
before I get one.

 BF> If you are intressed I can send you some from where I live but this 
 BF> requires an email adress.

rjnel{at}bellsouth.net

 BF> And then when all is done the next hurricane season starts again.

A never-ending story.

 BF> Must be a steady job there beeing a building worker

There is a lot of construction going on in my area at the moment.  I
suppose it's because people would rather commute back and forth to New
Orleans and live on higher ground here.  Pretty soon I'll have to go
further north to get away from the maddening crowd.

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

No.  I'm retired.  I do pretty much what I want.

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

It doesn't snow heavily enough to collapse the roofs over there?

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

That's exactly what I meant.  Our lines are insulated, so I cannot
understand how the squirrels or snakes that are inclined to climb could
cause that.  I'm not saying that snakes don't know how to climb, but why
would they climb a utility pole?

 BF> But we don't have snakes climbing in the poles.

What do your snakes do?  (-:

 BF> It's very handy here when it is snowing and the snowploughs are busy 
 BF> plowing the main roads. Then they don't have much time to fix the small 
 BF> roads but with 4 WD it's no problem to drive. And I have towed a couple of 
 BF> cars up of the ditches.

It's been a long time since we've seen any snow in this area.  I think the
last time was about 17 years ago.

 BF> And if the rain keeps coming as it has for the past 2 weeks I presumably 
 BF> have use of the 4 WD soon as well.

It has been the same here.  Once the rain stops and we get two days of
sunshine, I can begin clearing up the yard, which looks like a disaster
area.

 BF> If I haven't told you I live 10 km from the nearest village out in the 
 BF> woods and theese roads around here are not at highest priority.

I have an unusual situation here.  I have a Covington phone number, a
Mandeville address, and 100 yards (90 meters) away from me on the same side
of the street is the city of Abita Springs fire tower.  I'm surrounded. 
(-:


Regards,

Roger

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