54 hours with no electricity, and therefore no heat. Last night the temperature was -teens.
Chattery Teeth is right
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I sure hope you get electricity soon. Happy Holidays.
Ditto!
We've been holding our breath here. Power flickered numerous times yesterday but came right back on. Have taken what precautions we can in case it does but heat will be a big factor as we don't have a back up system and generators that were within budget and could handle the load we'd need had sold out by the time we got to the store on Saturday.
Have filled the tub and spare buckets with water for drinking and toilet flushing and the range top is gas so can still cook.
We've been holding our breath here. Power flickered numerous times yesterday but came right back on. Have taken what precautions we can in case it does but heat will be a big factor as we don't have a back up system and generators that were within budget and could handle the load we'd need had sold out by the time we got to the store on Saturday.
Have filled the tub and spare buckets with water for drinking and toilet flushing and the range top is gas so can still cook.
...hugs and hope for all...if you would make the trip, you are ALL welcome here....
That sucks. In 2009 we went seven days with no electricity due to a massive ice storm here in Northwest Arkansas. Every power line in our neighborhood was either on the ground or in the trees. It was eerie the night it happened, listening to trees and huge tree branches snap off during the night. Our house is all electric so when the electricity went, our house turned into a deep freeze. The first night wasn't too bad, we piled on blankets and everyone, including our dog, slept in the same bed. The second night we moved to a hotel a couple of miles away. Moving a dog was difficult enough, but my son, five years old at the time, refused to leave Mike, his goldfish. So we had to pack up Mike's fish bowl in a box and take him with us. One of the guys I've worked with for many years really came thru. He had a vacant rent house up in town and wouldn't take no for an answer. We ended up living in his rent house for a week, free of charge. I have a temperature monitor in my house that displays the temp. inside and outside our house. I came back in a couple of days to get clothes for everyone and the temperature inside my house was 50 degrees. You could see you breath walking down the hallway. All the food in the fridge went bad, it was a crappy week to be sure.
@ghost19 - I'm so glad you took the goldfish too!
It came on right before I posted. I do not have a data plan....no power meant no wifi.
Last night I had to empty the fridge. Probably about $100-$200 to replace that food. We never touched the freezer. I woke up within 6 minutes of the power coming on and got up immediately to run down two flights of stairs to get everything soft out of the freezer. It was literally full to the top.
Threw out about three meals of chicken, one meal of pork on a stick. (I think everyone else calls them kabobs ) a full tub of sorbet, a full box of ice cream sandwiches.
But our turkey was on the bottom, so still frozen. The steak seems fine, as do the $30 work of pork we put in the day before the power went out.
We did have to cancel the Christmas party we had planned on Sunday. It was to be the first time in about 6 years all my kids and grandkids were to be together over Christmas. Oh well.
Last night I had to empty the fridge. Probably about $100-$200 to replace that food. We never touched the freezer. I woke up within 6 minutes of the power coming on and got up immediately to run down two flights of stairs to get everything soft out of the freezer. It was literally full to the top.
Threw out about three meals of chicken, one meal of pork on a stick. (I think everyone else calls them kabobs
) a full tub of sorbet, a full box of ice cream sandwiches.But our turkey was on the bottom, so still frozen. The steak seems fine, as do the $30 work of pork we put in the day before the power went out.
We did have to cancel the Christmas party we had planned on Sunday. It was to be the first time in about 6 years all my kids and grandkids were to be together over Christmas. Oh well.
I think the goldfish is immortal or something. My son won the fish at the fair in 2009 at a ring toss booth. The fish is still going strong going almost five years later. Daniel still stops and talks to the fish every morning before school. "Hi Mike, be good today", stuff like that. lol.
You and your family have my respect and sympathy ,I was in Arkansas that winter, feb. of 2010 to be exact....had to pick up a delivery on some little back farm road. Just came across the Missouri/Arkansas boarder and was hit with a snow storm... 12 inches of snow expected and that particular Arkansas county did not have any snow plows but had to borrow them from surrounding counties. Took me 5 hours to drive 100 miles plus the few miles down the dirt road to the farm. Snowed in for the night and had to have the farmer plow me out.
That was the storm for sure Mia. It's the storm everyone I know measures all winter weather by around here.