Re: Mid-Winter - Electricty Out; No Light, No Heat, No Water
- From: Too_Many_Tools <too_many_tools@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:28:23 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 1, 8:21 pm, Too_Many_Tools <too_many_to...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 1, 7:39 pm, Observer <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:46:05 -0800 (PST),
hot-ham-and-che...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 29, 9:51 am, "hall...@xxxxxxx" <hall...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 9:44 am, h...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:30:43 -0500, Strabo <str...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
How would you do?
throw a couple more logs on the fire, put some tea on the propane
stove, open up the garage so the freezers don't thaw, fire up a couple
of oil lamps, and break out the Scrabble board.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - More than a million people stranded in darkness
Thursday in the wake of an icy winter storm could face a lengthy wait
for electricity to course through their frosty homes, even as federal
help was promised to two states hit hardest by the blast.
Late Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed requests from Kentucky
Gov. Steve Beshear and Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe for federal emergency
declarations. Crews - even the National Guard in Kentucky - worked
around the clock to resurrect power lines downed by thick ice in both
states. Officials in states from Oklahoma to West Virginia fought to do
the same.
Utility officials estimated more than 1.31 million homes and businesses
across a wide swath of states were powerless early Thursday, and warned
it could be mid-February before some customers had power. The storm has
been blamed for at least 23 deaths so far.
Many flocked to shelters, while others huddled next to wood-burning
fires and portable heaters to fend off the frigid night air. Some who
stayed put relied on gas stoves to cook food. Meanwhile, emergency
officials feared the crisis could escalate as temperatures plunged.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090129/D960PK880.html
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really if terrorists somehow crashed the electrical grid in mid
winter, how prepared is our country fopr perhaps no power for weeks?
Some people on these groups don't believe there are terrorists. They
believe that the bad things that happened to America were accomplished
by our government, specifically, by Bush and Cheney. Bush and Cheney
are gone. No more terrorism. So no more worries. You can sleep at
night again.
Some people on these groups are anxious to believe there are
terrorists behind every tree or stop sign. They believe nothing bad
will happen to them if they just roll over and give up their
constitutional rights.
Giving up your rights for protection equals freedom in your world, eh
Chesse-Knob? After all, your government will always be there to
protect you if you just step out of their way.
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Like Bush was there for New Orleans after Katrina.....
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The fun continues....
Guardsmen cut through fallen trees in ice-caked KY
By ROGER ALFORD, Associated Press Writer Roger Alford, Associated
Press Writer Sun Feb 1, 11:25 am ET
LEITCHFIELD, Ky. – National Guard troops swinging chain saws made
their way into isolated Kentucky communities Sunday to check on
residents walloped by a winter storm that Gov. Steve Beshear called
the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the state.
Some 4,600 guardsmen fanned out across Kentucky to distribute food and
water, remove fallen trees, go door-to-door in hard-hit areas and
provide security in communities that have been evacuated.
With high temperatures well into the 40s through the weekend, much of
the ice that had clung to buildings, power lines, trees and roads has
disappeared. And another winter storm that had been forecast to hit
Monday apparently will bypass the state.
"Hopefully we will dodge the bullet," Beshear said. "We're keeping a
watchful eye on that."
Kentucky was the hardest-hit by the ice storm that paralyzed wide
areas from the Ozarks through Appalachia early last week. The storm
wrapped a large part of Kentucky in an inch-thick mantle of ice that
shattered utility poles, toppled trees and drove thousands from frigid
homes to shelters, and the state had a long way to go toward recovery
— authorities said it could be weeks before power was restored in some
spots.
More than 400,000 Kentucky homes and businesses still lacked
electricity Sunday, down from more than 700,000, a state record.
Officials told those still shivering in dark, unheated homes to seek
safe refuge in motels and places with power or generators.
"Too many people are trying to tough it out at home," Lt. Gov. Daniel
Mongiardo said.
The storm that began in the Midwest has been blamed or suspected in at
least 42 deaths, including nine in Arkansas, six each in Texas and
Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West
Virginia and one in Ohio. Most were blamed on hypothermia, traffic
accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Finding fuel — heating oil along with gas for cars and generators —
was a struggle for those trying to tough it out at home. Hospitals and
other essential services took priority.
In Lone Oak, a tiny community in rural western Kentucky, Angel Wyant
has been eking out the days with the heat from a kitchen frier
connected to a handheld propane tank.
"And a carbon monoxide detector," she pointed out, mindful of the
dozens of deaths caused by the storm.
The makeshift heater isn't much good when night falls, so Wyant, 32,
and her three children have been staying overnight at the home of
neighbor Rita Kelly, 53.
"We huddle around the old wood stove," said Kelly, whose two-bedroom
aluminum sided house now shelters six people.
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