Posted on 07/01/2012 7:48:22 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
Just wanted to check in with FR...terrible line of severe storms rolled through the state Friday ...hundreds of thousands including my family without power.. extreme heat... we are doing ok..on small generator
Prayers up. Do you have power yet? My son near Athens just got power back late yesterday.
Take care of yourself FRiend! Stay safe.
Hang in there, prayers going out to you! Pray the power comes back on soon!
My mom is in DC. They’ve been having blackouts for the last two days. Last night they had to evacuate.
Brutal!
You stay cool.
My best Texas trick is to wet a t-shirt, wring it out and put it on. I’ve actually been too cold when it’s 100* outside with this one.
When my mom lived in TX, she’d wet the bedsheets before bed. No blankets. You don’t want them dripping. Well, rung-out.
Still no power.. could be a few more days
Not any different from the situation in WVA, Maryland, and Virginia, except we don’t have a generator. Imagine!—people used to live without electricity all the time because no one had invented it yet.
How’s the h2o supply? Municipal? Stay safe. Prayers for you tonight. Update us tomorrow please.
Is there anything you need? Anything we can do to assist? Just a few hours away.
AFter Tropical Storm Isabel knocked out my power for 96 hours back in ‘03 I got bought a 14000kw propane powered generator with automatic transfer switch.
It got its real test last year when I went 54 hours without power in late August/early September and then 51 hours in late October from the “Halloween snow”.
The down side is that it costs roughly $5.00/hour to operate.
They endured the ice age too but I sure as hell wouldn't want to endure it.
Small generator and window a/c would run under $500. Small price to pay for a little comfort when the electricity is out and your horse and buggy are blocked in the driveway due to fallen trees.
We went through the flip side last November...just under a week without power after the heaviest wet snow storm that downed tons of trees and power lines. Generators are wonderful things; glad to hear you have one. Wishing you safety and a return to normalcy!
An RV with a generator and propane stove, fridge and hot water heater really comes in handy at a time like this.
My town of Cambridge has been devastated; One church was completely obliterated, and power lines are strewn throughout the town (power outages won’t be fixed for a week), several other buildings destroyed-—but no fatalities.
Break out your emergency supplies.
You do have emergency supplies, don’t you?
It can be pretty miserable. After slammed by a hurricane, we did without electricity, gas, and even water for 26 days. Had to bathe in a dark-green, algae-filled swimming pool next door for weeks. No hot meals. Hard to get to sleep on blazing hot nights. MISERABLE!
But, these things always make me think back to our pioneer forefathers. Pondering all the things they had to go through put it all in perspective, and it would leave me smiling and without any complaints.
Amen
I don’t have $500. As a prepper I have long since gotten used to living in the DC metro area without air-conditioning, however, so I’m not tormented by the lack of electricity. Funny you mention the horse and buggy, but in fact that’s my escape vehicle in a real SHTF scenario (the horse, not the buggy). Horses can jump fallen logs.
Prayers for all.I’m 20 miles from Columbus.Bad here too,but blessed with minimal damage.Electric out only 23 hrs.Some may have to wait 7 days or more for electric. 95 degrees tomorrow with more storms coming.Pray for those without fans or air conditioners.
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