Post by craftedbys on Feb 3, 2022 17:33:35 GMT
This is crazy.
Southerners can do snow. We see the forecast, run to the store and get our bread and milk; make a snow angel and maybe a sad snowman. Maybe make snow cream if we get a good snowfall.
Ice is a whole other thing. We don't do ice.
We still talk about the Ice Storm of '94.
That one was brutal. My parents lost power (in this house) for a week, but survived with a fire in the fireplace and cooking on the fire or the gas grill.
We also lose power occasionally throughout the year, high winds, thunderstorms, etc. Once a squirrel hit the transformer and we were without power for 2 days.
We are having an ice storm this morning. The news keeps updating how many customers are without power. At one point the number doubled in 3 minutes.
We have already had some limbs fall and the power lines are bouncing with every branch that falls in the neighborhood. Our metal shed has taken a direct hit on the roof and it bent the frame and one of the doors.
At this point it is not really a matter of if we lose power but when.
We have a camp stove to cook on, but I worry about keeping the house warm enough for my Dad. He's 94 and is always cold. He has a heater in his room and keeps it a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
So I have all the electronics charged, including my charging brick. I bumped the heat to make the house warmer and have already started soup for supper than can be reheated on the single burner. I also have the coal oil lamps filled and ready as well as flashlights gathered.
Of the course over the next weeks there will be a clamor of why the power lines aren't underground, especially in older neighborhoods that have so many trees.
The power company will, just like they did back in 94, make a huge deal about how expensive it would be to put power lines underground. Like they haven't spent millions upon millions on crews restoring power outages after every thunderstorm and other weather conditions throughout the years.
I hope we hang on to power as long as possible and hopefully it won't take days to get it restored.
Southerners can do snow. We see the forecast, run to the store and get our bread and milk; make a snow angel and maybe a sad snowman. Maybe make snow cream if we get a good snowfall.
Ice is a whole other thing. We don't do ice.
We still talk about the Ice Storm of '94.
That one was brutal. My parents lost power (in this house) for a week, but survived with a fire in the fireplace and cooking on the fire or the gas grill.
We also lose power occasionally throughout the year, high winds, thunderstorms, etc. Once a squirrel hit the transformer and we were without power for 2 days.
We are having an ice storm this morning. The news keeps updating how many customers are without power. At one point the number doubled in 3 minutes.
We have already had some limbs fall and the power lines are bouncing with every branch that falls in the neighborhood. Our metal shed has taken a direct hit on the roof and it bent the frame and one of the doors.
At this point it is not really a matter of if we lose power but when.
We have a camp stove to cook on, but I worry about keeping the house warm enough for my Dad. He's 94 and is always cold. He has a heater in his room and keeps it a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
So I have all the electronics charged, including my charging brick. I bumped the heat to make the house warmer and have already started soup for supper than can be reheated on the single burner. I also have the coal oil lamps filled and ready as well as flashlights gathered.
Of the course over the next weeks there will be a clamor of why the power lines aren't underground, especially in older neighborhoods that have so many trees.
The power company will, just like they did back in 94, make a huge deal about how expensive it would be to put power lines underground. Like they haven't spent millions upon millions on crews restoring power outages after every thunderstorm and other weather conditions throughout the years.
I hope we hang on to power as long as possible and hopefully it won't take days to get it restored.
