No Newspaper

[Cookiely]

You know its bad when you can't get the newspaper published.
Storm squelches Monday edition of Cape Cod Times
Monday January 24, 2005
HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) The weekend blizzard that raked New England with blinding snow and blustering wind has kept the Cape Cod Times from publishing for the first time in memory.

The newspaper, which put out a paper during the famous Blizzard of '78, decided to only publish an online edition Monday, because of the raging storm that lashed the Cape with snow and vicious winds through Sunday afternoon.

The Cape was among the hardest hit areas of the state, with two to three feet of snow falling in many areas, with high winds forming even deeper drifts.

``It's horrible here. The conditions are unbelievable. Some of our toughest people in four-wheel drive vehicles were trying to navigate the roads, and the drifts were so high you couldn't see,'' said editor Cliff Schechtman.

Schechtman said no one at the paper recalled having to ever cancel an edition before on account of the weather.

``And we're not happy about it,'' he said.


(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Persepone]

No mail today for most of us either. According to TV and other sources, even the main roads (state highways) are not clear! roads that have 2-3 lanes in each direction have one bi-directional lane open for emergency personnel, etc. but the rest of us have no business going out even if our cars would probably be okay on some of those roads...

I've for wheel drive, but there are 30-something inches of snow on the road in front of my house... Not quite what my car manufacturer had in mind... And if my car won't go through this stuff, the mail delivery person's car won't go through it either....

I think that people who were at the Cape Cod Times during the storm got stuck there and it is this skeleton crew who put the on-line edition together. There's no good way out of where they are.