[Steppes] Riding on the Storm

[Elaine Crittenden]

Reminds me of a time when I was in CA and water was severely rationed. The
jingle went thusly:
"If it's yellow, let it mellow;
If it's brown, flush it down."   ;-D

Lete

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>From: "Susan Hill" <sueorintx at hotmail.com>
>To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Steppes] Riding on the Storm
>Date: Fri THJun 4,2004,5:40 PM
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> Interesting you should mention earthquakes....1971, Feb. 9. a 6.6 earthquake
> with epicenter about 5 miles from my home. Amazingly we got power back
> within a few hours, but water......9 days without. Half of the water had
> literaly been thrown over the house from our pool, but what there was left
> sustained our neighborhood. It was unseasonably warm for early February, but
> there were no showers or baths and we filled the toilet tanks only once or
> twice a day for flushing. Ironically, the areas that were actually more
> severely damaged got water back before we did.
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