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To: nihil who wrote (1373)	9/9/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Well, night all. I just hope I don't wake up to another two hundred messages to try to read before my first client comes in at 9:00! If, that is, the world is still working tomorrow. 9/9/99 -- a famous figure in older computer programs! Actually, part of our part of the world isn't working much -- on Orcas Island, next door to us, a ferry lost its propulsion system (which is the brakes on a ferry, in case you didn't know that; it has propellers both front and back and docking is really a controlled crash--head for the dock and as you approach run the front propellers to slow you down to a gentle bump. Well, the ferry lost its propulsion as it approached the dock, and wham. Good bye major part of dock, and nice dents in ferry. After about four hours they towed it back to Anacortes, from whence it had left five hours before, and everybody got dumped back there. They say the dock will take two weeks to fix; in the meantime, the only way to get vehicles on and off the island will be by private barges (pretty much like landing craft) on beaches. This is an island with a population of about 5,000 people who depend on the ferries for everything -- bread and milk and gasoline and lumber and hardware and you name it -- or who expect to go off island in their cars to shop on the mainland for what they don't buy locally. Plus of course the school kids can't travel by bus to their away games, and other teams will have to come by ferry to the closest island, Lopez, and then take passenger only boats over to Orcas, and vice versa. It is going to be one hellatious mess. Had a client today who was supposed to come over from Orcas; fortunately they were to leave on a ferry after the crash; if they had come on an earlier ferry they might still be stuck on our island. And oh, by the way, Orcas Island is home to Rosario Resort, one of the most prestigious Northwest resorts, plus about two dozen smaller resorts, plus B&Bs, etc., and to Moran State Park, where hundreds of people plan to camp every weekend. One hellatious mess.