-pocalypse

[Steve Kl.]

Joel:

Oh, I have been going to Cambridge! -- That was what "driving out of my way"
entailed this morning. I brought a box o' Joe into the office, to the
delight of my office coworkers. :D

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 5/3/2010 11:19 AM, Steve Kl. wrote:
> >In case anyone's monitoring this kind of thing, clever Bostonians are
> >throwing about "aquapocalypse," which is fun to say.
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> >-- Steve
> >(boiling water for the 2nd day, and driving out of his way to get coffee)
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> And it takes a long time to make ice cubes.
>
> Steve, I assume you could go to Cambridge, which has its own water
> supply independent of the MWRA.  Unless that happens to be a long way
> for you.  And some places are serving instant coffee (recipe: powder
> and boiled water).
>
> Joel
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