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Yet another indication of the decline of the U.S. infrastructure. We just had a 4 day series of snow storms. The first one was a wet heavy one due to the fact that the mass came across the northern end of the Sea of Cortez. It probably dropped about 6 to 15 inches depending on where you were. On Saturday night, later on after the storm moved in, the power flickered a few times and then went out. We were without power until today. Needless to say I being the untrusting soul I am, I immediatly went in to town and bought new water containers, since our pump is on the AC (gotta get that solar/wind backup system put in) and filled them up. When I got home I told Rox to dig out the coolers and put snow in them and empty out the fridge of all perishables. Well at the time I had no idea how long the power would be out since we do have our share of outages here and there but usually they come back on within minutes to a couple of hours. I guess my hunch was right. The series of storms came through and they weren't too bad but most of the county was out for some time, and I believe they are still working on some of it. If there had been tornadoes or gail force winds or floods I could understand it, But we live in the southern rockies and it use (emphasis on use to) to snow 4 or 5 feet sometimes. Why on earth in an area where snow is common, are people so unprepared. We have reached a level of unpreparedness and deterioration within the infrastructure that is inexcusable for the 21st century. Could it be the cost of the war in Iraq:

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On a lighter note here is a photo from this weeks storm, The La Plata Mountains: