SHAWANGUNK RIDGE – The storm and power outages of last Tuesday seemed bad enough. But it was only the lead punch in a one-two combination that brought the ridge area to its knees, as an even bigger storm dumped upwards of two feet of wet snow on top of the foot that had fallen earlier in the week. The storms took out power and phone lines, ensuring that employees of area highway departments and utility companies would be working overtime to restore power and communications to nearly 200,000 customers who for an extended period of time were forced to go without. But the storm was oddly selective in its wrath, sparing certain places such as Kingston, an area that saw little in the way of accumulation, while places just a few miles further inland got clobbered.   > MORE