My comeuppance--26 hours without electricity!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Yes, a winter ice and snow storm took down the lines and I was eating a can of pork and beans by candlelight for dinner. My suffering was short but it made me realize what all of the refugees around the world are suffering, and so many with no end in sight. Another big storm is just cranking up and I just hope that my supply of beans holds out...
 

Ralphy1 said:
Yes, a winter ice and snow storm took down the lines and I was eating a can of pork and beans by candlelight for dinner. My suffering was short but it made me realize what all of the refugees around the world are suffering, and so many with no end in sight. Another big storm is just cranking up and I just hope that my supply of beans holds out...
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I know exactly what you mean Ralphy, I hope things have cleared up now. I have cases of food put up for just such an emergency and I told my husband yesterday that we better lay up a store of TUMS since we have so many cans of chili beans, tamales, hash etc.
 
Yeah & another huge thing we often take for granted is clean water. Very very sad so many have no decent water to drink
 

We had an ice storm back in 1998,the electriciity went down,no heating,we were lucky because we only got uprooted from our home 2 days,there were people that suffered 7 days and more.

I hope you keep safe and there are enough beans for you!
 
I hear ya Ralphie. After Sandy we had no power for 4 days. We were blessed though, wacky power grid...our block came on two days ahead of the block in back of us. Never mind the towns that didn't see electric for weeks. I was pretty okay. We still had gas so we could cook and have heat. Enough flashlights that I read and the family played cards. They say that when suddenly the porch light went on after day 4, my son shrieked like a little girl.
 
One of the first things I bought when we got ready to move to the country was a generator. Being without power for more than a couple of hours is a real pain. luckily, our worst outage was perhaps 5 years ago, when a tree fell across the local power lines, and we were without for about 18 hours. Oddly enough, our worst outage was the Winter before we moved here, and the city had a huge ice storm which knocked out power for 3 days. I had just bought the generator, and we had the kids and neighbors over for meals, and some heat during the outage.
 
Things were so bad after Sandy that the town businesses all got together. The library had a generator and stayed open into late night. People who might never set foot in the library, but you could recharge electronic gadgets and stay warm...it was packed.
 
I sent the email below to my dad after the floods here this year. I had to condense my email because it was too long to post here...
A series of new happenings in my life have caused me to stop and ponder what I might do to prepare for emergency situations.. I had been thinking of buying a storm pod from Home Depot. I had decided to get an underground life pod shelter from Home depot so I wouldn't have to worry about tornadoes anymore. Flash floods got me thinking that I might drown in the dang storm pod. What to do what to do...I thought maybe buy a rubber boat and a life jacket for my dog in case of a flash flood, but the whole problem is that usually I get a tornado warning on my phone right along with flash flood warnings. Hmnn. So then I thought I could buy a scuba suit and some underwater tanks and store them in my life pod. All of this disaster preparedness caused my mind to wander and I imagined years from now .... a tornado and a flash flood hit my double wide. People assumed I had been blown away with my house somewhere. My body was never found. My family mourned a while and went on with their lives. Then one day a couple of rednecks stumble across the lid to my life pod and open it.................................
First guy: Holy shit! Bubba come look at this!
Bubba: Oh my God it's a dead person! Let me get my phone cam
First guy : Yeah but this is really bizarre, isn't it?
Bubba: Yeah it is! What I want to know is what that scuba diver was doing in that septic tank!
 

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