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> Hi Everyone, I have been absent again from you all for about five days
> now. I told some of you about the computer surge or lightning problems, and
> the death of my friend, now, we have had major weather related problems.
> Temps are below freezinghere, which is a bit unusual for this time of you,
> but we had major snow falls here also. Very very heavy wet snow knocked out
> power and phone lines and has torn hundreds of thousands of treens knocking
> down the phone and power lines. The roads have also been disasterous, as we
> had to travel to a music conference during this time.
> Well, power and phone have just been restored and I am trying to read throu
> 1,000 messages in total.
> God bless. I'll comment when I can.
> Welcome to marlene and Marvella, though I haven't seen her message yet.
> Phil, I think you may have to change the name of the list to
> echurch-colorado.
>
> Vinny