My patience is wearing a little thin, PECO. Now they say that maybe we’ll have power tomorrow morning. It’s 50 degrees in the house. If I wanted to live in the 19th-Century, I’d build a time machine.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
That’s infuriating. We had a devastating windstorm here in SW Ohio after Hurricane Ike hit the south, and people around here were without power for as long as two weeks. We took all of the stuff from my mother-in-law’s fridge and freezer so she didn’t lose it. Fortunately the weather wasn’t cold, or people would have been much worse off.
Being in a cold house and automatically flipping on light switches (d’oh) is very annoying. Hang in there!
I was out of power 5 days after a huge storm in the ’90’s and couldn’t get to work until my boss sent a farmer on a tractor to come get me.
I did learn something. One whole day I watched utility crews out in front of my house…and I learned why Carhartt puts so many pockets in their overalls. These guys had half a grocery store’s worth of snacks each inserted into pockets and by golly end of shift those pockets were empty!
Hey I was without power for 7days after the big ice storm here in NH back in ’08. And some folks here in NH and MA are schedule to be without power for up to 7 days here again. So quit your whining 😉
but you’d need electricity to run your time machine . . .
Marty McFly did it with lightning.
I feel your pain. After going four days without power, both when the “hurricane” roared through Ohio a couple of years ago and an ice storm dumped on us in 2007, I suddenly found out that having a few 5 gallon gas cans filled at all times, a working generator and a small propane heater on hand wasn’t such a far fetched idea. For the first 50 years of my life, I don’t think I ever went without power for more than a few hours. In the last four years, though, there have been two events spanning multiple days. Disaster preparedness always seemed like so much overkill. My thought was “give me a couple of flashlights or a candle or two and I’ll be fine”. Then a “real disaster” strikes. And it sure would have sucked without the backup plan.
Rep. Gerlach just pulled next to me in Ludwig’s Corner market.
Never fear. You have an entire political party dedicated to transporting us all back to the 19th Century. (En route to the 14th.)
And hey, aren’t you glad you don’t have some sort of socialist public utility?
No power here, no heat. After I leave work I’ll literally be in the dark. Schools have been set up as shelters. My ass was officially frozen off last night.
A week without power, 90 degrees, matching humidity.
Hurricane, Bitchez!
It bites either way.
Good luck.
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In 2006, we lost power for 6 days, with the outside temp at about 10 F. The inside of the house got down to about 35. We stayed in the house, and just wore a lot of extra clothes. We took all the food and put it in the backyard in ice chests, keeping the sun off them. It all stayed frozen, although some items were kinda suspicious. My wife and I didn’t really mind it, but my son was becoming extremely irritable by the end.
Due date is 11/16.
Picture here.
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Oooooh ~ sweet. What kind of fuel?
LP
Hoosier Propane is about 4 miles away.
Ooh, pretty. Congratulations!
(I was hoping it was a puppy…is that wrong?)
One thing about Sioux Falls: They take winter very seriously. The entire town, with the exception of the central core, is built with underground power and telephone lines. There are NO overhead lines within about 4 miles of my house. We can have a REALLY big storm, and NO HOUSES lose power. Very few houses in Sioux Falls ever lose power. Underground power lines – an idea whose time has DEFINITELY come.
I don’t get it – why are they above-ground in the downtown?
Isn’t that the densest area, where the per-home cost of burying the lines would be the lowest? Not to mention the business center?
Because the downtown is an old area. As new sections are developed, the lines go underground. It’s difficult to do underground lines in existing areas – you have to go under driveways, etc. But my area and all areas around here are new since 2000. So no above-ground lines.
I’d love it if they would do that here. Probably wont happen in this lifetime though.
It is so pervasive that it must be a law. This is one of those law things that conservatives hate so much. Funny thing – South Dakota is very conservative. Why did such a conservative place figure out that mandating buried lines is a good idea?