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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

That sounds like one of those National Geographic videos..........."WHEN CHICKENS BITE...."

In the 'ville (Louisville for the uninitiated) we had about 5-6 inches of snow, then about 1-2 inches of pure ice from hell, then another 3-4 inches of snow. My neighborhood looks like a tornado hit it--at least the trees. They're bent, broken and in terrible shape.

As a direct result of this bullhockey, people call in to the UPS hub and don't show up for work. REALLY a great thing for ME because all the mgmt people we have here in Louisville (the main air hub for UPS) get called in to work in a contingency situation. So at 10pm for the last 3 nights, I've been loading packages into A1 containers, which have about 550-600 cubic feet of space. Packages come down long chutes--30-40 feet long from a height of about 12-15 feet to the bottom of the chute where you pull them out and, in a tetris-like tortuous game, sure to break your back, try to put them into the container. Small packages come down in these 3 foot by 3 foot nylon bags maybe 20-60 in a bag.

So for any of you buttheads in Fargo, ND or Sioux Falls, SD (some of the destinations that I've been loading) that ordered anything to be delivered yesterday or today, THANKS A LOT. Also....PLEASE STOP ordering for a couple days--at least anything heavy. Baseball cards (in small quantities) are fine however. 42 year old overweight lazy people should not have to get up in the middle of the night and work 5-6 hour shifts in a 40 degree +/- building.

Also.....you'd be surprised at how much bull and pig semen is flying around up in the skys between midnight and 6am. I mean alarmingly surprised.

Okay, that's my bitch for the day.....about 150K people without power here, and we're not one of them, so I'll shut up now....