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Laboratory Support Staff The work of the dedicated laboratory staff has been essential to enable the institution's success and to provide support to the scientific researchers. Please share recollections about your life and work as part of the staff at CSHL.

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Old 01-23-2004, 12:33 PM
Timothy Mulligan Timothy Mulligan is offline
 
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We have some plants that under normal conditions are hard to grow so if we were to have a power outage in the middle of winter when it is 5 below and windy and snowing it would be nice to have the power back up swiftly. Well, one night we had a wicked snowstorm, power went out and I did not have a back up generator but I had a kerosene heater that had a big smokestack and which stood 6 ft. tall. We had a whole greenhouse full of maize. I pulled this thing in there and I lit it up and it was like a torch because I did not know exactly how to regulate it and thank goodness I did not set the whole thing on fire or melt anything but fortunately I got the thing to a temperature so we did not lose any plants. But by the time I figured out how to regulate it, it was 2 or 3 in the morning and I did not want to leave it alone so I sat down in the greenhouse with my back against the bench and I felt myself fall asleep. I must have taken a catnap or two in the greenhouse that night with this kerosene heater keeping us warm.
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