Enough was enough. After the last power outage/ice storm I bought one of these and plugged it into my electrical box.
Posted on 01/27/2009 6:06:36 PM PST by janetjanet998
I thought we had it bad in South Texas. It went from near 80 degrees to 46 in 30 minutes. Guess we shouldn’t complain down here, but I was wondering if Al Gore made a trip to Texas.
Enough was enough. After the last power outage/ice storm I bought one of these and plugged it into my electrical box.
My sister is in a hotel room in Richmond, KY and she said there are 50,000 people with no elec. She’s not able to plug in her phone or comp for recharging, not able to eat as nothing is open..pretty bad
reports from weather expert beau Dodson this evening near Paducah(posting in generator power)
-Power poles now falling in Graves County - prob McCracken as well from what I am hearing
-there are concerns of a water shortage in Danville, KY right now... there is no electricity to pump the water supply for the city
- We just got hit twice more - taking video - you can hear loud crashes all around. Constant breakage now.
Lost part of the garage lights broken - all hit the roof over me here by my computers.
Several big ones are getting ready to go.
Don’t know how long I will be on. But still here. More and more damage.
-Worse and worse here. House took another hit - cam looks to be destroyed now - roof damage on SE side of house. VERY loud crashes constant now.
-Trees falling left and right. Very bad here. Catastrophic damage. Power is now out in my entire neighborhood. We have seven hits on the house - so far the roof has held. Looks like damage to parts of the house but so far not major - lost my cam and instruments. Damage to parts of the roof - shingles - gutters - lights have broken off house.
Another tree just hit our house.
It’s over here. heh I told everyone since Wed to prepare here - went with “catastrophic in my email yesterday and worried I was being too extreme. Looks like we ended up with worse case.
Will take lots of pics and hopefully will get running again in a few days.
We are heading to the basement.
Yeah, I saw that on the news, and the pictures looked just like it did here in January 2007.
This time, the worst of the ice is south of us. Here in Springfield, MO, we got just enough ice to see it on the trees, then it turned to sleet/snow. It’s ugly out there, but it’s not a big deal, as power is still on, services still running, etc. It’s just a pain to get around, etc. Nothing like they’re having south of us, or what we had two years ago. I expect we’ll see some people from south of us coming into the city into hotels/shelters or to get warm with family till power gets back on/stuff gets fixed. They’re in my prayers.
Yes - Here in northern Arkansas I have over an inch, and it’s still coming down. The TV news said they have over 100000 customers without power in NW Arkansas. Prayers up for them tonight, the temp is supposed to drop to about 10.
Well at least hopefully after it passes, we’ll still have enough able bodied men (who are out of work) that can cut up the wood for next year’s heat......we’re gonna need it. Think the ACORN folks will show up to help clearing the mess?
If they get as much ice as the weatherman is predicting, a lot of people will be without electricity!
2” of ice on power lines and trees is catastrophic.
My prayers are with you!
Take care janetjanet998.I will pray FRiend.
I hear tell that there could be upwards of ten thou--er ten milli-er I mean ten ka-billion people dead out there... What will O-Boy do?!
We still have power here on the stateline ‘twix AR & MO.
4 inches of sleet, about a half inch of ice beneath that.
North central AR is majorly trashed-they got way more ice than us.
But I suspect our power might be out by morning. The crap is still coming down.
Be safe and warm there.... tail end of this storm is about to descend onto Central Texas, too.
Oklahoma is hammered. OKC is not bad, but Tulsa and points northeast and east towards the AR line are a mess. No real word on powe outages yet.Just checked OGE website, looks like only a couple of thousand homes without power system wide. OK had a huge ice storm last year and many thousands without power for weeks - OGE has had a major tree trimming project ongoing and cleared tree limbs from around their power lines system wide. We are fortunate that we had very little wind with this storm.............red
LOL!!! ACORN work?
Hope you have better luck with FEMA then we had in Oklahoma. There were so many restrictions by FEMA and no support for Home Owners that they were basically told to take a hike. FEMA was more trouble in Norman then they were worth.
FEMA is a worthless organization. We had crews and tree people from a lot of states that came in under local contracts after FEMA blew it. FEMA contractor was in our green belt behind the house and created more damage then help with the people they had. If they were tree people, I would be shocked. We had crews from NY that came in and cleaned up after them along with a local group hired by the city who did a great job.
Prayers for you.
CAntore and others on the Weather Channel web page haven’t reported in since late afternoon...seems to be pretty serious. I don’t have cable or sat any more, so now Wether Channel reports for me currently.
Good idea ... hopefully, you're using a cross over box.
Otherwise, utility repair crews working working your area will be totally pissed.
Obama must fly to the scene immediately.
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