-=> On 09-29-08 06:29, Roger Nelson wrote to Richard Webb <=-

 RN> On Sun 2008-Sep-28 13:33, Richard Webb (1:116/901) wrote to
 RN> Roger Nelson:

 RW> OUr whole area was well forested.  sO much so that at night, being
 RW> that our area had no street lights on most routes it was virtually
 RW> pitch dark when you went outside at night.

 RN> There was no electric power from the Louisiana coast to Baton
 RN> Rouge.  One of my sons was living in Pontchatoula at the time
 RN> and he ended up buying 6 power generators for his home.  I
 RN> don't know where he got gasoline for them unless a nearby
 RN> service station was running on that kind of power.

 RW> ONe of the first things I did when we moved in was install
 RW> one of those motion lights out front so that as soon as we
 RW> pulled in with the van it came on.

 RN> I had to carry a flashlight around because as you already know,
 RN> it gets very black at night when no city lights are on,
 RN> especially in that area.

are you telling me/us that you guys don't have stars in your neck of the
woods?? the milkyway galaxy lights up everything around here and i bitch
and complain about the few street lights that are around that basically
blind one to beauty of our skys...

)\/(ark

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