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Editor’s Page (continued)
Here are a few tips for future storms:
1-Don’t leave ice cream or frozen yogurt in the freezer if your power goes out, it won’t last more than a few hours before the container starts leaking.
2-Invest in a back-up small electronic charger for your phone and rechargeable flashlights.
3-I’m getting some LED lanterns and keep well stocked with batteries.
4-I also ordered, from Amazon, a 4-pack of Cooler Shock freezer bags that are supposed to last up to 48 hours and longer than ice. They are thin and take up much less space in a freezer than bags of ice. One pack, they say, is equivalent to 3 pounds of ice.
5-And if you have solar landscaping lights, especially flood lights, you can bring them in at night and hopefully, as mine did, they work all night long to light up any size area.
One last thing. Saturday evening, even though the neigh- borhood’s power was out, about 25 of us decided to party at my next-door neighbor’s house. We had two grills going with all the food that had defrosted and would have been wasted. I brought over a bottle of Berentzen Apple Liqueur and toasted the best neighbors around. The party ended. I went back into the house to face another night of darkness, when, at exact- ly 9PM, the power returned. I went out the front door and shouted, “I love you TECO,” then came back into the house and unashamedly cried.
TIDBITS
The first recorded instance of an animal self-medicat- ing itself was reported by researchers at Indonesia’s Gu- nung Leuser National Park. The wild Sumatran orang- utan, Rakus, has been seen applying a medicinal plant to a wound. He was ripping leaves from a vine known as akar kuning, chewing them, and applying the paste to a wound on his face. The plant is known to possess antibacterial and pain-relieving properties according to anthropologist Cheryl Knott who told Scientific American. She also said he may have come across the treatment accidentally or learned it from another orangutan. Orangutan see, orang- utan do!
Letters to the Editor
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David Lubin, MD Dajalu@aol.com
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A CLEARED PATH
A TOAST TO OUR LEIGHTON DRIVE HEROES!
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