Not a problem

Take your time, the priority is keeping your family and yourself safe, keeping your house intact, and only then worrying about working on the magazines.  I'm sitting here tonight after having to call the oil company twice today for breakdowns of my furnace in sub-freezing weather.  If I lost power, I'd be stuck relying on my wood stove on the porch to keep just one room of the house even vaguely habitable, and even then it'd be damned uncomfortable.

Good luck.  You've endured a couple weeks none of us would want to go through.

Janet N.

Magazine Release

Joe,

My condolences to you and your family, for your loss. It is extremely difficult to lose a parent.

Deal with the magazines when you feel it is time. Glenn

My Condolences

Joe,

I'm sorry to hear your mother has passed. Do what is important, the magazine schedule is not important right now. We are with you and share in your grief.

Best Wishes,

Greg Amer

Hang in there!

We experience the same conditions in the Northeast Joe!  Power goes out and we're in for a few days to a week before it comes back.   

It is hitting Texas this

It is hitting Texas this weekend. My motorcycle is at work covered in ice. Still have power at home and at work so I do not envy you stuck with out power. As always I will read it when it gets here, and enjoy it then. We are having unusually cold weather right now, and the weather is talking about below zero in the coming days.

Be safe and warm and take care of yourselves. Again sorry for your recent loss.

Take your time Joe and pay

Take your time Joe and pay attention to your personal problems first. I don't envy you living 'in the forest' in a snow and ice storm. I'm liking my spot here in Florida, ......a few cold breezes, but no snow or ice

I do recall going thru a ice/snow event while living in Bethesda MD one yr. It was very close to when i first got restarted in the hobby. We had lost all power due to downed power lines. I set up some candle power and ended up building a plastruct truss bridge under candle light. Eventually used that bridge on my first layout.

Best of luck

Gotta Love the Weather

Or not.

Sorry to hear about your mom. It is never easy losing a close relative of any kind.

A caution about hiring tree trimers to clean up the mess. We had 3 ice storms in this area back in 2006 or 07. 3 inches of ice before it was all over. Branches and trees of all sizes lay everywhere and in our case we could not even open our garage door let alone get out of the driveway.

And that was when I found out about tree trimers. It seems that some will spread a lie that the best way to clean up a heavily damaged tree is to litterly cut off everything except a small crown at the very top and even that is very very short. Looks ugly and is not necessary or good for the tree. The trees that got this treatment were all deciduous trees. 15 years later it is still obvious that they had gotten a bad hair cut.

And it took 11 days to get the power back on. I really hope your recovery is quicker.

Tired of the cold and ready for spring.   Jack

Condolences

Joe,

Sorry about the loss of your mother... as was taught to me at a very young age, rule #1 is "family first"

All understandable!

Joe, our condolences for the passing of your mother.  She had a great son to help her along. 

As for weather, sometimes it's best to stay on the ground.  I know a guy that will get your land lines back in order PDQ... 

Enjoy the sun when it shines again.

The Magazine will be Here When It gets Here...

The magazine will be done when you have the ability. No power is no fun! Hearing the breaking of branches doesn't help either. Family first Joe, the rest will take care of itself in due time.

Tree damaged one of our cars

My condolences

Joe, So sorry to hear about your mom. She will rest in peace knowing she raised you right. Don't worry about the magazine schedule,we will all be here to read it when the time is right. Let your faith pull you thru these times...DaveB

Joe,Sorry to hear about

Joe,

Sorry to hear about the passing of your Mom. No worries on the magazine, it will get done when it gets done.

Insurance will handle any damage, hopefully, and the power will come back eventually. This is the first house we have had with a generator and it has been useful for outages a few times. No inexpensive, but nice when you need it.

Lou N

Sorry About Your Loss

Our condolences to you and your family.

Espee over Donner

Joe, Sorry to hear about your

Joe,

Sorry to hear about your mother. I know how that feels, I've been there way too often. Take it easy, the magazine can wait.

So sorry for your loss

Joe and Patty,

We were saddened to hear of the passing of your mother.  Our sincere condolences and prayers for you and your family.

-Bob and Ailene

Magazine publication schedule.

My sympathy to you and your family for the loss of your mother. At times like this, you need to take as much time as you need for your family, don't worry about missing some deadline for the magazine.

Joe S

Death and loss

I am sorry to hear about your mother's death.  Caring for yourself and family is of utmost importance.  As Psalm 23 says, at least to me, we will walk through that valley and what it offers.  But it also says we have Someone walking with us.  BTDT.

Take the time you need.

The only issue is...

You DO know one more setback and you'll have start calling it the March issue?*

*Can we have two March issues then?

Enjoy your downtime

I'm sure when the power comes back on you'll be silly crazy busy catching up but until then this gives you a chance to slow down, take a deep breath and have some quality family time. Life before the internet...In some ways I miss it. Our sincere condolences to you and your family on the passing of your mother.

So Sorry for your loss

Joe

So sorry for you loss.

Take the time needed to grieve, the magazine can wait.

The magazine's quality is always worth waiting for.

Mike

Getting the Mag Out s/b the Least of Worries and Concerns

We'll live and it will just increase our anticipation!

Yes you will live ... but

Joe, you have my sincere

Joe, you have my sincere sympathies on the passing of your mother, and with the storm damage and everything else it has got to be a bit overwhelming.   We appreciate the candor about it, and I think most of us are pretty understanding that sometimes the perfect storm hits - no pun intended - and you have to take care of you and your family first. 

When dad passed away a few years ago,  I took almost a month off my day job and ISE to get things in order initially.   Things went on hold, projects were late, but  everyone was pretty understanding about it until I could get back to them.   I can't speak for everyone, but at least from this one small advertiser...  don't sweat it, we're good.