I'm in Arizona. What is "snow"? -----Original Message----- From: Jon Page <jonpage@mediaone.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Bad days (a bit long and very cold) > >Kristinn, > >We all have "Abominable Snow Stories". I've had those days. >Fortunately, you made it without incident. Keep it up. > >Warmest Regards, > >Jon Page > > >At 10:29 PM 03/02/2000 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >>Where to begin? >> >> >> >>The weather has been pretty interesting this last week. The last weekend I >>went to a town about 45 minutes away for a concert tuning. The church that >>bought this new Steinway C from Hamburg was holding the concert in >>celebration of the new instrument. Having tuned for them almost >>exclusively the last two years I decided to do this one for free. >> >>I started on my way around noon. The road goes over pretty high country, >>and the weather on the moor was very bad, heavy snowing etc. >> >>I finished tuning the grand and got on my way back. I drove for about 25 >>minutes the same way back and started noticing some jeeps in trouble with >>the snow. >>Visibility was zero. >>I figured this way was out of the question for my non-jeepish Toyota. >> >>So, I turned back. When I got down from the moor again the police had >>already closed everything down. >> >>I decided to take the only other way to town (apart from driving the other >>way around the country). The weather there was also bad but I got through >>-- just barely-- some two thousand people got stuck on this road just >>after I got through and had to stay there for up to 14 hours to be rescued. >> Nobody left their keys in the cars so the road was clogged up for the next >>day or two. >> >> >>Well, yesterday I drove a fifteen-minute way to a tuning. An easy job, I >>was even offered a wonderful salmon dinner. >> >>After that there was just the way back, eerily similar to the weekend. >>First of all there was a car stuck in the exit of a roundabout and I had to >>wait for that one to pull loose. >> >>"Whoops, the gas light has been glowing for a good while now." >> >>I smashed my way through the piles of snow in front of the gas station. >>Only the self-service part of the station was open so I couldn´t make >>anyone else than me suffer out in the weather. After banging open the >>frozen lid on the car I went to pay. I had to wipe the snow off the >>computer screen and stick my car key in the bill-slot to get the ice out. >> >>I took a bill worth 1000 IKR ($14) and started putting it in. My fingers >>were numb by that time and I accidentally dropped the bill, which, sure >>enough, disappeared up on the roof of the station. The next bill I took >>was only a 500 IKR (in case I also dropped that one, it would have been >>less of a loss). That one went in easily so I proceeded pumping gas into >>my craving vehicle. It all went fine up to 70 IKR ($1) -- either the pump >>was empty or just frozen! >>My head also probably froze 'cause I feel rotten today. >>So on one dollars worth I got home. >> >>Other than that there hasn´t been much going on, apart from this week´s >>volcanic eruption, of course. >> >> >>Regards from the land of fire and ice, >> >>Kristinn Leifsson >>Reykjavík, Iceland >> >
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