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Offline Duce

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« on: January 10, 2005, 12:03:54 PM »
Folks: Talk about withdrawal, last Wed."s ice storm knock out the electicity here abouts. Yesterday I borrowed a generator and got running water and lights back, but today the line crews smiled upon me and got the lines back up, THANKS GUYS. You kinda take these guys for granted till you need'em, they came from all over ILL. OH. NC SC MI and others I'm sure. While I was out trying to find Coleman latern fuel, one fellar kinda growled about the storm, I smiled and replied " at least it wasn't a thirty foot wall of water"! Good To See All Is Well:  :D <>< Duce:
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Offline jeff223

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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 12:57:37 PM »
hi Duce,the ice was all south of where i live here in Michigan.we got lucky for once.i heard on the news that your state got it bad along with many others.good luck down there for the rest of the winter.there sure is lots more to come till spring.its forcasted to be up near 45 on Wednesday and then down near zero on Friday,Saturday and Sunday :shock:
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2005, 05:33:17 PM »
we had three inches of ice on everything  but our power was only out for 2 days  the ,most i heard was from a friend about and hour west of me no power for 10 day  but now that its all gone we now have ponds in every field!!! flooding is bad anywhere south of columbus. BTW my dad is a substation trouble shooter for AEP and boy did he get a big check last week :shock: .
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Offline Nightrain52

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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 07:29:09 PM »
Glad you got your power back on. Northern Indiana got hit pretty hard with ice. I think they said tonight it may be Wednesday or Thursday before power is fully restored. We got pretty lucky here. I live about 50 miles straight west of Indy and all we had was heavy rain. South and west of where I live they have a lot of flooding but the water is now receding but they are predicting heavy rain for the next couple of days. I'm ready for spring and summer already. :D
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Offline Joel

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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2005, 07:37:18 PM »
We were hit pretty hard here in Central PA also, but things are about back to normal finally.  Going home from work was fun; dragging trees of the road with my tow chain at 1 AM was invigorating.  Hell, I've a wood burner, two coleman stoves, lantern, portable radio, flashlights and batteries, and our water company didn't lose power, so I had water also.  I'll take a measely ice storm over walls of water traveling at 500 MPH anytime.  God have mercy on those poor folks.
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Offline Mac11700

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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2005, 09:43:21 PM »
Duce:

Glad your back up and running... :D

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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2005, 12:56:05 AM »
ya a couple guys i now went up there to help yall and i would  have if i was old enough. ilive in NC
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2005, 02:19:00 AM »
TrapperZach, I thought it was very kind of you not to mention the 70 degree temp's we've been experiencing down here in NC in your last post.  Oops.   :oops: Ah.. you northern boys just ignore this post okay.  Seriously, glad to hear your okay Duce.  This might be a good time to catch up on some reloading. :D
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Offline Nightrain52

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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2005, 03:44:24 PM »
Brett and TrapperZach- :P  :P  :P  :P  :eek:  :D
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Offline Hildy

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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2005, 04:21:23 PM »
It seems people take for granted the nice customs we have today. TV, computer, phone, frig, microwave, basically electricity in general. I have a wood burner and every summer is the time I go out to gather firewood for the next winter. This one hasn't been so bad but there has been a few that were nasty. Anyway, within the last 2 months, we had our power out twice. Both times were about a 8-10 hour duration. Even with that small of an outage, life becomes very limited with the things you can do. I think I made a bowl of soup on the woodburner the last time it was out :)

Its good to see you made out ok. Power outages sure aren't my favorite thing :wink:
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2005, 04:58:58 PM »
Duce you think you've got it bad, why it was 72 degees here today,and I almost had to strip to my T shirt, I suffered something terrible all day.I bet Marv,and Lik2 hunt had to turn on the aircondioning in the trucks. Yep its really bad down here.
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