[FreeTheHostages]

There's *so much* bottled water sold in these parts. Your people being young and all, I'd bet they spent $ on bottled water instead.

Well, some people remain without power. One of my co-workers is STILL out.

[dansangel]

One of my co-workers is STILL out.

We had a bad ice storm here in January 2000. Some folks were without power for *three weeks* - can you believe?

We lucked out - the power for us was only out about 12 hours.

[GailA]

When Memphis had that INLAND hurricane a couple of months ago, it took them nearly 30 days to get everyone back on. It seems our electric systems all across the US are getting OLD, and are not being up dated as they should. Folks use to trim their trees to keep them from falling on power lines. Now no one does it anymore and the lines are often brought down due to storms, and you end up with hundreds or thousands with out power.