Many homes, businesses still without power
Photo Credit : Ed Green | Business First
Posted on 01/29/2009 7:03:43 PM PST by justa-hairyape
PADUCAH, Ky. – Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.
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Where’s Obama? Where’s FEMA?
Where’s Algore?
He unleashed FEMA this morning
It’s all that global warming, don’t ya know. Godspeed to all our Kentucky and Arkansas FReepers.
Looks like we are on our own. Our government is too busy spending money on politically flavored pork to actually have time to worry about life and death situations affecting our citizens.
Southeastern Missouri was hit pretty hard too from the northern part of Scott county to the Arkansas line, parts of stoddard county as well.
My elderly parents in Sikeston, Mo. are without electricity and water as well since they aren’t on the city’s water system.
• Arkansas: 350,000
• Illinois: 6,500
• Indiana: 89,000
• Kentucky: 542,000
• Missouri: 120,000
• Ohio: 128,000
• Oklahoma: 20,000
• Tennessee: 14,600
• West Virginia: 35,000
• TOTAL: 1.30 million
I am in Louisville. I am putting out Refugee Updates on the Canteen Thread of the day.
Louisville is a total disaster - lines down, trees down, neighborhoods with only one lane in and out. Some businesses are up and running, but every hotel is full, either by power crews, or refugees.
Shovel ready jobs on the way and to the rescue. Immediate wind turbine erection and solar panel installation, and this climate crisis will be over.
You might want to make sure they have plenty of water by Saturday just in case the blizzard conditions hit their area.
They need to get a little more serious. Apparently giant storms get the forecasters all excited.
A massive ice storm that knocked out electricity today to more than a half million homes and businesses across Kentucky and Southern Indiana could leave Louisville residents without power for seven to 10 days, officials warned.
Obama is busy throwing his party with $100 steak & alcohol. FEMA has not been reported on yet - so who knows!
My mother lives in Clarkson, KY. I haven’t been able to reach her. The phone lines are down. I called my sister who lives in Louisville and she had talked to her Tuesday night. Neither one of them have electricity. I’m in North Carolina and praying she’s okay. What a mess!
Still no disaster declaration - only an emergency declaration; and only for Arkansas and Kentucky. Doesn't look like folks should be expecting much help from FEMA. http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema?year=2009
The good thing is that people are taking care of each other and not waiting for FEMA to help. There's some good hearted, tough people around here and things will work out.
On a somber note there was a decorated Army Veteran (76 year old) that died this morning from CO poisoning. He had bought a new generator to power his home and was afraid of someone steeling it so he put it in his utility room with the window barely cracked. Unfortunately, the CO got him. RIP.
Many homes, businesses still without power
Photo Credit : Ed Green | Business First
Yep. That is what I heard.
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