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sbukoski wrote:

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Lisa,

Where do you live? I'm in Worcester

I live in Northern Maine. Record snowfalls this year. The DOT crews have done a wonderful job this year, as always, but their salt and sand supplies are nearly depleted. My next-door neighbor has a wall of snow so high I swear he could sell ad space on it. He should spray-paint it green! The next wave of scary will be when it aaaaaaaaaaaalllllll melts. One co-worker was forced to move her family out of their house because of water damage and resulting black mold. We seriously need some windy days to dry some of this up.

The combination of longer, colder and snowier winter than usual with outrageous gas and oil prices and twice-the-national-average electric rates, along with disappearing jobs, has taken a terrible toll on people up here. It has been very interesting to see the natures of people emerging. Help has come from some unusual places; others have become victims of fear and just started acting weird. Many, many families, knowing that their power can't be cut off during the winter with children in the house, have made the choice to put off paying electricity so they can afford oil.

I am greatly encouraged by the wind turbines going up around here. Whether exacerbated by global warming or whether normal climatological cycling, I hope none of us has to see a winter this severe again for a long, long time.