On the sleeve of a sweatshirt worn today on Congress Street:
"ICE STORM 98 SURVIVOR"

may these texts continue to circulate

The broadcast equipment of WUNH was damaged in the ice storm. Welcome to the World, scheduled to play some Saturday or Sunday morning in mid-January, had planned to cancel anyway, for the spirit energy that had sustained strange reincarnations of the band so many fall Friday nights in a row had gone dead. The storm mercifully took the decision out of it.