Re: OT: ice storm
- From: Emily Bengston <cypsew@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:41:09 GMT
On 2/1/09 7:55 PM, in article noshl.5267$D16.678@xxxxxxxxxxxx, "Sharon Hays"
<mamahays@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Juno B wrote:Thankfully, you all are okay. To be able to cook and share with your
The Wanderer wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:59:07 -0600, Sharon Hays wrote:Sharon, I'm so glad your OK. The weather this week has been unbelievable.
Well, it's been an interesting week here. We had freezing rain start on
Monday. Lasted till Tuesday evening. Then changed to sleet and finally
to
snow overnight Tuesday. We wound up with 1 1/2" of ice, and about 1" of
sleet/snow on top of it. Lost power 9:30 Tuesday morning. Didn't get
that back till Friday night around 6.
A mistress of understatement!
Impresive (if that's the word) collection of pictures. Glad to learn
everyone around you is safe and well.
We had ice, sleet and snow but nothing like you had. You were indeed
fortunate to be able to get heat and cook. I can live without lights,
but not heat and food. Your pictures are a great testement to your
experiences. Keep them for your Grandchildren. They'll never believe the
story otherwise. Continue to stay warm and dry.
Juno
I'm with you, Juno. The light wasn't a huge issue for me. We had candles
and that was enough. (although, we won't talk about how many electric
lights I have on NOW. LOL) Being cold all the time just is not my thing.
At one point, before we had the generator running for the day, I had on my
polar fleece sweatpants, a pull over sweatshirt and a zip up sweat shirt
over that. Oh, and wool socks and slippers. I don't do cold. And it's
amazing how uplifting a hot meal can be. I was about in tears several
times just because I was so grateful that we could all have a hot meal.
I sent the pictures to my family and friends all over the place. There's
just no way to understand how nasty it was without the pictures. I will
definitely keep these. I know we will be talking about this week for a
long time around here. Fortunately, there are some good memories to go
with it too. ;) My next door neighbor (I just dearly love all our
neighbors, the are wonderful people) told me I should put in for a grant
from FEMA for running a soup kitchen during the crisis. LOL Then my mom
said she would paint me a sign that says "Sharon's Soup Kitchen" to hang
up. heh heh So there were some good times in all of it too. ;)
Sharon
in-laws and neighbors during that time was great. I'm sure they really
appreciated the hot meals.
Tell your Mom, you don't need the sign now, but she should send it anyway
for the future. LOL
After reading your description and looking at the photos, I told DS, I will
stop complaining about this roller-coaster weather we've had for a while;
temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s and highs in the low 50s one day;
then the next day, the lows are in the 50s with highs in the 70s-low 80s.
We had a bit of snow one morning, no ice though.
I'm glad you had some good times in spite of it.
Emily
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