Calhoun07
02-01-2002, 10:52 AM
Did anybody miss me?
Ok, ok, you don't have to be mean about it! :p
The past two days have been the most horrible two days I can remember. We wound up getting hit pretty hard with the winter storm. I don't think we ever did get any snow, just ice, sleet, and rain to add to the ice. Wednesday evening it really got bad when power went out for nearly a million people, if not more. And the ice on the trees caused brances to break off almost constantly, so all I could do was lie in the dark, listen to these mighty trees just tear apart and collapse to the ground (and that sound is some sound!) and we even had lightning, strange lightning. I think some of it was from transformers and power grids going out.
Thursday morning, I woke up and had the natural light to show me the way around my apartment. I found my flashlight and got some food out of my refigerator into a cooler and put it out on my deck (which was so-so successful. My frozen meat was already thawed by the end of the day, so I don't think that's good anymore.) Phone lines were almost and next to impossible to get thru on. I could not get thru to my place of work as it kept telling me all circuits were busy. Then there was a fire down at the leasing office of my apartment complex that added to the variety of the day.
Thursday night all I had left to eat was Bart Simpsons cereal. I washed my hair incase the pipes froze up, and I basically spent the evening in the dark, again, listening at times to the radio, and at times reading comics by flashlight (kinda reminded me of being a kid again!)
I feel asleep in my chair and around 11 I woke up to discover I had electricity again. Most of the city is still shut down, however, as around 100,000 CUSTOMERS (which probably translates into about a quarter of a million people) are still without power, and my place of work is still with out power.
But I have to say this was the worst winter storm I have been thru, including the 30 inches of snow that got dumped on Minnesota one Halloween night a few years ago. The trees all around are either down or missing branches and are just bare sticks sticking up out of the ground. The best way I can describe how it looks is like a tornado went thru in slow motion. The damage caused is equal to that of a tornado, but stretched over one entire night.
Ok, ok, you don't have to be mean about it! :p
The past two days have been the most horrible two days I can remember. We wound up getting hit pretty hard with the winter storm. I don't think we ever did get any snow, just ice, sleet, and rain to add to the ice. Wednesday evening it really got bad when power went out for nearly a million people, if not more. And the ice on the trees caused brances to break off almost constantly, so all I could do was lie in the dark, listen to these mighty trees just tear apart and collapse to the ground (and that sound is some sound!) and we even had lightning, strange lightning. I think some of it was from transformers and power grids going out.
Thursday morning, I woke up and had the natural light to show me the way around my apartment. I found my flashlight and got some food out of my refigerator into a cooler and put it out on my deck (which was so-so successful. My frozen meat was already thawed by the end of the day, so I don't think that's good anymore.) Phone lines were almost and next to impossible to get thru on. I could not get thru to my place of work as it kept telling me all circuits were busy. Then there was a fire down at the leasing office of my apartment complex that added to the variety of the day.
Thursday night all I had left to eat was Bart Simpsons cereal. I washed my hair incase the pipes froze up, and I basically spent the evening in the dark, again, listening at times to the radio, and at times reading comics by flashlight (kinda reminded me of being a kid again!)
I feel asleep in my chair and around 11 I woke up to discover I had electricity again. Most of the city is still shut down, however, as around 100,000 CUSTOMERS (which probably translates into about a quarter of a million people) are still without power, and my place of work is still with out power.
But I have to say this was the worst winter storm I have been thru, including the 30 inches of snow that got dumped on Minnesota one Halloween night a few years ago. The trees all around are either down or missing branches and are just bare sticks sticking up out of the ground. The best way I can describe how it looks is like a tornado went thru in slow motion. The damage caused is equal to that of a tornado, but stretched over one entire night.