Flush Rush & Some Family Updates

NEWS ARTICLE: 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition to express outrage at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for saying he wanted President Obama to "fail."

A couple of automobiles ago, I had the one and only bumper sticker I have ever placed on a car. It read:

In responding to the comments to yesterday’s blog post, Winter Storm, Mom, & Alex, I provided updates on my mother’s status in regard to the present ice storm. For those who don’t read comments or don’t want to click back to that post, below I have coped the most relevant information:

• In the last contact I had with Mom today, she had no electricity, heat, or water. I asked her to telephone me as things change so as not tp unnecessarily us up her cell phone.

• You know, it isn’t the snow that causes the power outages; it’s the ice weighing down tree limbs that break and fall onto power lines that then break. The last I read, there 800 known line breaks affecting the power of about 500,000 consumers, the second worst ice storm in the history of the Commonwealth. It’s now estimated that some folks won’t get power for maybe 10 days.

• If worst comes to worst there are numerous shelters that have been opened across the Commonwealth for folks without heat and power. Since my mother lives within a major city, her wait for power may not be too long. My sister, on the other hands, lives on a farm in the hinterland. It may take her much longer to get power.

• The sound of breaking tree limbs, weighed down by pounds of ice, is a frightening and distressing noise. So far as I can tell, I have only one broken limb in my yard…

 

As for me and my leg, I have had two excellent nights of sleep. I wasn’t awakened from pain in my leg. Hopefully, healing is taking place.