Many homes, businesses still without power
Photo Credit : Ed Green | Business First
Posted on 01/29/2009 7:03:43 PM PST by justa-hairyape
PADUCAH, Ky. – Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.
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Where’s Obama? Where’s FEMA?
Where’s Algore?
He unleashed FEMA this morning
It’s all that global warming, don’t ya know. Godspeed to all our Kentucky and Arkansas FReepers.
Looks like we are on our own. Our government is too busy spending money on politically flavored pork to actually have time to worry about life and death situations affecting our citizens.
Southeastern Missouri was hit pretty hard too from the northern part of Scott county to the Arkansas line, parts of stoddard county as well.
My elderly parents in Sikeston, Mo. are without electricity and water as well since they aren’t on the city’s water system.
• Arkansas: 350,000
• Illinois: 6,500
• Indiana: 89,000
• Kentucky: 542,000
• Missouri: 120,000
• Ohio: 128,000
• Oklahoma: 20,000
• Tennessee: 14,600
• West Virginia: 35,000
• TOTAL: 1.30 million
I am in Louisville. I am putting out Refugee Updates on the Canteen Thread of the day.
Louisville is a total disaster - lines down, trees down, neighborhoods with only one lane in and out. Some businesses are up and running, but every hotel is full, either by power crews, or refugees.
Shovel ready jobs on the way and to the rescue. Immediate wind turbine erection and solar panel installation, and this climate crisis will be over.
You might want to make sure they have plenty of water by Saturday just in case the blizzard conditions hit their area.
They need to get a little more serious. Apparently giant storms get the forecasters all excited.
A massive ice storm that knocked out electricity today to more than a half million homes and businesses across Kentucky and Southern Indiana could leave Louisville residents without power for seven to 10 days, officials warned.
Obama is busy throwing his party with $100 steak & alcohol. FEMA has not been reported on yet - so who knows!
My mother lives in Clarkson, KY. I haven’t been able to reach her. The phone lines are down. I called my sister who lives in Louisville and she had talked to her Tuesday night. Neither one of them have electricity. I’m in North Carolina and praying she’s okay. What a mess!
Still no disaster declaration - only an emergency declaration; and only for Arkansas and Kentucky. Doesn't look like folks should be expecting much help from FEMA. http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema?year=2009
The good thing is that people are taking care of each other and not waiting for FEMA to help. There's some good hearted, tough people around here and things will work out.
On a somber note there was a decorated Army Veteran (76 year old) that died this morning from CO poisoning. He had bought a new generator to power his home and was afraid of someone steeling it so he put it in his utility room with the window barely cracked. Unfortunately, the CO got him. RIP.
Many homes, businesses still without power
Photo Credit : Ed Green | Business First
Yep. That is what I heard.
Weather/FEMA ping
Heads UP !
Probably best to just run the generator when you are awake and can guard it. At night just climb under a whole bunch of blankets to sleep. Breathing the cold air is the tough part. Can cause sickness eventually. What I would do is stay awake at night while running the generator. Have a loaded shotgun at the ready to guard the generator. When the sun comes up and warms things a little, shut the generator down and bring it inside. Sleep during the day without the generator running.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 770,000 homes and businesses were still without power Thursday morning after snow and ice storms on January 27-28 left more than 1.3 million customers in the dark from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, local utilities reported.
The storms hit Kentucky the hardest, leaving more than half a million customers without power in the Bluegrass State.
Them old kerosene heaters can be dangerous too, but thats just what he was prolly used to doing with the kerosene heaters. I have done it too.
Sadly the generator puts out a LOT more CO
I’ve been watching this all day. It will be similar to 1993 yet not as intense.
More than a 1.3 million homes and businesses left in the cold without power Thursday could face a lengthy wait for electricity, leading to fears of new deaths.
Prayers up for you. May God give you strength.
Kentucky Ping.
So this Bambi’s Katrina. How’s he handling it? Where’s the press on all this? There are a million Americans shivering in the dark. Where’s the outrage?
My mom is in Perryville. They got their power back today. If nothing else, try calling the fire department. They’re good about checking on older folks.
My family and I are in Madisonville, KY. Things here are pretty much devastated. In the outlying county, there is no power, no water. In Madisonville proper, there is no power and only 1 gas station, Lowe’s and I think a grocery store were open briefly today. I have been told that there are 75 KY national guardsmen in town but who knows what they are doing. I have also been told that they have brought in a tanker of potable water but that they are charging for it. People need kerosene and other fuel for generators and there is none to be had. Things are quite dire here. If the level of assistance remains the same, I can see a number of deaths coming out of this. What I would like to know, is why the Governor has not mobilized more of the National Guard AND, where is Barack Hussien on this? Where is FEMA? Oh wait ... this isn’t Naw Orleans ....
I do not need or want the Governments help but there are those here that really do need the government’s help.
I guess it is President Bush’s fault ... oh wait .....he isn’t in office anymore.
Seriously though, things are bad and could be getting worse. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers.
Google “FEMA head”.
They are still harping on Katrina.
Yea, the set-up is the same. The 2 jets will merge and dip to northern MS. and AL. A closed low from the gulf will ride the jet up the appalachian spine. A cold front will coincide. Timing and proximity to the west side of the low is crucial to who gets the brunt.
FEMA would be on the way if you lived in a “chocolate town”
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“Shovel ready jobs on the way and to the rescue. Immediate wind turbine erection and solar panel installation, and this climate crisis will be over”
So true....
Our power was out for five days after a storm. This thread is bringing back the memories. Complete silence, or the din of power saws cutting thru branches of downed trees. Mixed with the sound of generators—I’d say 1/3-1/2 of the neighborhood had them. We kept thinking the power would be back on soon.....if I had known it would take five days, I’d have gone to a hotel the first day and waited it out. My husband said we couldn’t leave the house dark and empty for fear of looters. Never want to go thru that again. You are in my prayers....
Obambi is being hit by a WHITE KATRINA.
I call it
PALIN'S POLAR PUNISHMENT!
I shoveled about 16 tons of snow the past 3 days ...
Managed to slip and fall in my house today after sliding around outside without an incident.
I live in Hopkinsville. Do you all need anything? I could probably bring a week’s worth of food and water for a family of 4 up there. Just don’t know who to give it to.
Also, there’s a store here called Honda of Hopkinsville that was supposed to be getting 150 generators in tonight. Not sure if they’re selling, leasing or loaning them. Here’s the phone number: 270-885-6108. You might want to spread the word about those generators. I’ve got a bad feeling that they’re out by now, though, because they were advertising on the radio this afternoon.
Good luck! Praying for all of those still without power.
Did Kentucky vote for Soetoro? I need to know, so I can know whether to feel sorry for them or not.
Heavy 1/2 chain, heavy Master lock and hidden movement alarm made from wireless door alarm will solve most stealing problems. Had mine chained to 4000 pound tractor (car or truck will also do) for a week after hurricane Gustov. Had shotgun and 44 mag. as auxiliary deterrents. I really saddens to hear about people trying to to survive being poisoned by CO from generators.
We have an excellent view of the end of the deck from our bedroom window upstairs, as does our son the incipient Marine. Besides, to steal it somebody would have to scale a gate and traverse the length of the house some distance above the ground, then manage to cut a couple of good sized logging chains and two BIG locks.
If this pattern continues into spring, we will see more tornadoes up north.
Another cold snap is heading for the UK, as forecasters warn of the chilliest winter for 13 years.
Our auxiliary deterrents are a Rem 870 12 ga. pump shotgun and a couple of .45 ACPs. Thankfully nobody has ever tried to steal the generator. Although somebody did steal the passenger side step bar off my son's truck, right in the driveway.
Soetoro is handling this disaster with supreme competence and overflowing compassion. You can depend on it. No more questions allowed.
Nope, KY is still American.
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