Ice Storm Account
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By J M L in General Published: Monday, 15 December 08 - 09:20 PM (GMT -05:00) Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 December 08 - 10:45 AM (GMT -05:00) |
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Yes, ruined my computer/blogging time -- lost power on Thursday and got it back on Sunday. No heat, frig, hot water or lights. Below freezing temps.
No phones (cell phones down also) and only one radio station available and that had 45 minutes of non-stop music (hard rock) which made getting info nearly impossible.
Thursday night you could hear snap, crackle, pops (branches falling) and booms (trees crashing to the earth) all through the night. I put the dogs out and saw a few trees fall at about 11 pm. It just sounded like we were living on a shooting range.
Friday morning everything covered in a thick coat of ice as pictured above. Trees bent to the ground from the weight. We were in our driveway just listening to all the noise it made as if fell from the treetops to the ground. Like those old glass wind chimes. What fell, looked like chards of glass from broken bottles. You could not stand near the trees because you could really get hurt not knowing the size of ice that would fall down. The road was covered with the broken ice crystals.
I had to go stay at my brother's house an hour away with the children and the dogs. Both dogs were freaking out over the change.
We don't have a wood stove or fireplace (silly builder, what was he thinking?)
At least the car was warm and I was able to listen to the radio (other stations).
My husband went to his Mom's house because he had to work the weekend.
We went to the store (running on generators) for a few supplies and they were not selling any diary, meats, frozen food.
All the water was sold out.
As we drove, at times, one side of the road with trees was all ice ladened while the other side was just normal. What a contrast.
At my brother's house, it was if nothing had happened!
Anyways, the minute I heard our power was back on, we travelled home.
On the way back, still many traffic lights out and we went through towns still with no power period.
We come back into our neighborhood and we see that the neighbors have put up their Christmas lights to celebrate, I guess, or it was just something to do.
Tonight there are still some people without power and it is cold and windy.
Some they say may not get power back till after Christmas, mostly because of downed trees.
The electric company says they are going to have to redo their grid system now since this is the worst storm in their history of operation.
So now I am catching up, but really do you ever catch up?
On the Christmas list this year (just added): a generator, although sold out everywhere, and many have been reported stolen from some area homes.
I also need to go get some more small bottles of water for the next outage.
Hopefully, only till the beginning of March and then better weather but sometimes, winter does extend it's stay for another month or so. I hope not next year! I don't thing the electric company wants to be out in this type of weather working althought they did a super fantastic job under the circumstances.
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