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...patch distributors failed to produce enough to go around. Recent quitters, a high-strung group in the best of times, suddenly found themselves in an unnerving game of musical patches. "It's like a suicide hot line with a busy signal," says Jan Westmier, a former self-described chimney from Berkeley who finally got a supply of patches last month. Seattle carpenter Robert Gould just gave up. "I was on a , waiting list for two weeks before my pharmacy could supply me with the patches," he says. "Hell, by then I'd lost my nerve to quit...
...about 6 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a 10 foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarms and drew three fire engines...
...description continued, "Another chimney plunged through the roof of the School of Education. Slate from Wigglesworth Hall's roof whirled across the street, and is blamed for the breaking of the Cambridge Trust Company's large plate glass window...
Will and his house were more interesting than the discussion of direct gain and thermal performance. The whole first floor of the house was one open living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...
...much for the stereotype of Ivory-pure Utahans--or even the Mary Poppins ideal: this particular nanny was out until the wee hours slam dancing. With chimney sweeps, perhaps...