Just a quick housekeeping note to the various Yahoo! listserves which I
moderate to let you know that power has been restored to my part of the
St. Louis metropolitan area. And my fridge is nice and empty now, too,
but I'll be restocking it with all kinds of perishables later this
week, thank you very much.

According to the AmerenUE website at 8:20pm CDT, there are over a
quarter of a million customers who are still without power, many of
whom since the first set of storms hit last Wednesday evening (do the
math, folks -- that's almost 100 hours without electricity), but that's
less than half of the 500,000+ who were down following the second line
of storms that steamrolled us on Friday. So keep your fingers crossed
that the nice weather will hold and that we'll all be back on our feet
very soon.

So, if you post a moderated message to one of these listserves or
e-mail me directly at bgpaulus@..., please understand
that I'll get to it with as little delay as humanly (and
technologically) possible.

And, of course, best of luck to everyone who's in the greater St. Louis
metropolitan area, whether you've been directly affected by this or
not; we're all in this together.

Greg

Greg Paulus
Archaeology Information Hunter-Gatherer and Air-Conditioning-Worshipper
bgpaulus@...