54 hours with no electricity, and therefore no heat. Last night the temperature was -teens.
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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.@ghost19 - I'm so glad you took the goldfish too!
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 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.
That was the storm for sure Mia. It's the storm everyone I know measures all winter weather by around here.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.