Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
I thought I was gonna die.
Its not so bad just having power out, but it's freaking cold too, and I am sick.
every store was out of D batteries (people should make note of this event for future reference). All the lanterns people use these days with the LEDs run on D's. Thankfully mine still worked, but I was getting nervous that they were going to run out of power.
Without a fan to push it around, the wood stove doesn't do a lot to heat the house, but at least I had hot water heated on the stove to put in a water bottle and take to bed with me.
thankfully no car crashes, and haven't gotten stuck anywhere, no branches landed on my house but listening to the ice and snow fall onto the roof from the 100ft high cedar was somewhat disturbing. I won't know if there is any roof damage for a few days though.
It ended up that we had freezing rain on top of the 10" of snow that encased the tree limbs in half inch of ice, lots of downed trees and limbs all over. I lost 5 limbs from tall juniper trees in my yard alone, and a small fir tree in back. Many roads are closed due to downed trees, and at my last check there were 20K people in my city alone without power, and a lot more in the surrounding towns.
Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
Jezza_Belle posted: I thought I was gonna die.
Its not so bad just having power out, but it's freaking cold too, and I am sick.
every store was out of D batteries (people should make note of this event for future reference). All the lanterns people use these days with the LEDs run on D's. Thankfully mine still worked, but I was getting nervous that they were going to run out of power.
Without a fan to push it around, the wood stove doesn't do a lot to heat the house, but at least I had hot water heated on the stove to put in a water bottle and take to bed with me.
thankfully no car crashes, and haven't gotten stuck anywhere, no branches landed on my house but listening to the ice and snow fall onto the roof from the 100ft high cedar was somewhat disturbing. I won't know if there is any roof damage for a few days though.
It ended up that we had freezing rain on top of the 10" of snow that encased the tree limbs in half inch of ice, lots of downed trees and limbs all over. I lost 5 limbs from tall juniper trees in my yard alone, and a small fir tree in back. Many roads are closed due to downed trees, and at my last check there were 20K people in my city alone without power, and a lot more in the surrounding towns.
For some reason that part jumped out at me when I opened the thread.
mind=blown for a few seconds.
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Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
Gildash posted:
Jezza_Belle posted: I thought I was gonna die.
Its not so bad just having power out, but it's freaking cold too, and I am sick.
every store was out of D batteries (people should make note of this event for future reference). All the lanterns people use these days with the LEDs run on D's. Thankfully mine still worked, but I was getting nervous that they were going to run out of power.
Without a fan to push it around, the wood stove doesn't do a lot to heat the house, but at least I had hot water heated on the stove to put in a water bottle and take to bed with me.
thankfully no car crashes, and haven't gotten stuck anywhere, no branches landed on my house but listening to the ice and snow fall onto the roof from the 100ft high cedar was somewhat disturbing. I won't know if there is any roof damage for a few days though.
It ended up that we had freezing rain on top of the 10" of snow that encased the tree limbs in half inch of ice, lots of downed trees and limbs all over. I lost 5 limbs from tall juniper trees in my yard alone, and a small fir tree in back. Many roads are closed due to downed trees, and at my last check there were 20K people in my city alone without power, and a lot more in the surrounding towns.
For some reason that part jumped out at me when I opened the thread.
mind=blown for a few seconds.
rofl, thankfully not from my own body... just from my yard!
some guy died from falling limbs though, I was scared going out to get wood for the stove with all the ice falling out of the trees.
BritonGuy Title: Serious Business
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Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
I didn't notice. I don't know what you went through. All I have to say is:
Shame on you for not having internet.
Shame on you for not flaming some ACFer who deserved it when you were conveniently surviving from the cold, slacker.
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Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
wb jezza
glad nothing serious happened.
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Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
Jezza_Belle posted: every store was out of D batteries (people should make note of this event for future reference). All the lanterns people use these days with the LEDs run on D's.
"Lanterns", huh.
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PlieBrac Title: Ok, who did this?
Posts: 254 Registered: 2002-10-30 12:50:08
Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
is it still out?
i have a generator you could use.
generator is a good one, prob run the whole house
bout 10 hours on a tank of gas,,
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Date Posted:1/1/00 12:00amSubject:
OMG, power out for 2 days
regulator_cracka posted:
Jezza_Belle posted: every store was out of D batteries (people should make note of this event for future reference). All the lanterns people use these days with the LEDs run on D's.
"Lanterns", huh.
yes, lanterns, vibrators generally take AA or AAA, or sometimes fancy watch/camera batteries.
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