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Post by maddog on Feb 2, 2011 8:38:16 GMT -5
Well, got up this AM, and not as bad as predicted. Had snow[2-3"] and sleet/freezing rain. Some ice on the trees, but I've seen worse. My county [White] is one of 17 that's under a snow emergency, but the Mrs. and I weren't going anywhere, anyway. Biggest job I got is scooping a 2' drift against the back door, so we can get out.
maddog
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Post by drs on Feb 2, 2011 9:35:38 GMT -5
Me too.. we had seven or eight days of off again and on again electricity - mostly off. The fireplace insert was a life saver. We don't have a fireplace in our home, so we had to rely on a small generator, to keep us confortable as much as possible. We were able to make coffee, which helped, had to eat cold sandwiches until we were able to drive into town & eat out. After 15 days without seeing anyone working to restorte our power; we called our Attorney, as when we called the power company they simply hung-up on us. Anyway after we called our Attorney, we had our power back on that evening, after 15 days!!! The power company was draging their feet on repairs, in our area due to the low population. The people, in town, never lost power during the ice storm of 2009.
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Post by Russ Koon on Feb 2, 2011 10:34:29 GMT -5
Fared better than I expected here in Martinsville. Power went off about 10 pm, stayed off until about 4:30 this am. We had prepared by bringing in some propane camp gear for heat and light if needed, and turning on a trickle from the taps furthest from the water heater.
Wife and I just put more covers on and went to bed, stayed comfy.
Got down to 48 degrees in the house.
Always was my favorite sleeping conditions, plenty cool room with lots of covers. Took me back to the old days on the farm, when my bed was up against the west wall of the unfinished upstairs, next to the clapboard siding that had some pretty good gaps in it. Many times I'd wake up with snow on top of the blankets, and me snug as a bug in a cocoon with just my nose exposed to the air. Made it mighty hard to get up the ambition to get out from under those covers and start the day.
Couldn't help thinking about the guys who were out there in howling gusts in the wee hours, with icy limbs and twigs raining down on them, repairing those lines. They sure earned their money last night. Given the conditions, I have no complaints at all about the outage we experienced this time.
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Post by ski on Feb 2, 2011 12:04:33 GMT -5
sure hope this doesn't wipe out a lot of upland birds...
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Post by steve46511 on Feb 2, 2011 12:19:21 GMT -5
Couple photos. To keep it in perspective. Dewey is a 63lb 22 inch at the shoulder Walker Tri-Color. The "bush" ( since IGNORANT of yard tomfoolery) is almost as high as my mobile home top and two are wider than it by several feet. ![](http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/Steve692/IMG_0506-1.jpg) ![](http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj170/Steve692/IMG_0509.jpg) Drift on the right in the second photo is over my belt buckle(5 foot 11 tall) and about 80 feet long. Front yard dont look much better, nor in front of my GARAGE.......lol Hope all "weather" this fine. GodBless
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