Kate,

Sorry you had to go thru it, but I'm glad you're power's back in business
and you're safe.

Hugs,
Kimmy

thanks, sweetie.  yay--for warmth; yayy -- for hot showers; yayyy -- for
sleep.<smile>

kate

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Wow...I know we were without power for about 4 days in 99 when the tornado
took out alot of out town...and but at least we were warm...
Last year, the week after Thanksgiving we were without Gas for 1 week... but
we had electricity...

***it's a challenge, isn't it.  my home is all electric.  even the woodstove
runs on electricity (the thermostatically controlled fan), so it didn't heat
much (the best i could get the temperature of the house raised to was 58
degrees, which, thankfully, is way above freezing.)

Glad to hear that you are Safe...And back up and running...

***thanks, hon.  my poor cat shasti somehow broke one of her lower fangs,
not completely off, yesterday (i think she ran full-tilt into something hard
in the dark--lack of energy only applied to the house.).  i just noticed the
tooth jutting snaggly out of her mouth last night.  gotta get her to the vet
today.  i can't figure out how come it doesn't seem to hurt her--she's still
running and jumping around like her normal monkey self.

Also...I imagine the Blizzard in Colorado and Kansas and then as it goes its
path will cause alot of power outages...Praying for all those in it's
path...

***me too.  hopefully, those power companies still keep a complete
contingent of emergency repair people on hand (like puget power used to, but
now subcontracts out).

kate

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oh kate, i don't know how you managed! yuch. i'm glad you got your
power early and are back here where you belong.

diane

it's a little easier when you have two heroes (my son and 9 year-old
grandson, who is here for a week from AZ) popping in on you<smile>.  those
two sweeties brought me a couple of hot meals that my son cooked at his
place and kept loading up the kindling box for me.  (at my request, to keep
indoor firewood mess confined, and according to my design -- 4'x4'x4'
exterior dimensions-- butch built the kindling/wood box of cinder block, as
i figured we wouldn't have to worry about termites or carpenter ants eating
cinder block, on the outside wall of the house.  it has two doors on it. one
door is outside the house to load it from outside and one door in the wall
next to the fireplace--that door is almost invisible, because it is made of
the same interior 1"x8" wood paneling as the interior walls.  i didn't want
that indoor door to be too noticeable.  butch did such a great job on it,
almost 30 years ago.)  i burned almost a cord and a half of wood, trying to
warm up the house to keep the plumbing in the attic from freezing, though
mainly the livingroom had warmth.    yes.  i know, i'm blest.<smile>

kate

Always nice when you can come out the other end of an ordeal in one piece.
Let's hope things improve for you folks out there.
GaryZ (on last day of work 'till Jan 2! yayyy)

yeah, it is, gary.  our electricity grid of about 1000 households had lots
of trees that took out lines and even snapped one of the telephone poles at
a neighbor's house across the street from me.  i feel for the people on
marine view drive, because the gale-force winds took down hundreds of trees
there.  the first night, when i drove home, my street was so littered by
limbs, it was like driving on a thick evergreen carpet.  i couldn't even see
the road i was driving upon, it was that littered.  glad i bought the rav4!

enjoy your holiday vacation, guy!

kate

Yay! So glad to know you're back on! Aim and Tish got 'enlightened' a day
ahead of you. I expect I'd go to Eugene and stay with Mom, calling the
neighbors every day or so. I am a big wimp and our woodstove only heats one
small room.:(

Kelly C.

glad to hear that aim and tish are ok.  my two sisters, mom and dad, and
alex (all of whom live within 5 miles of me) were all without power, but for
only one day.  you're right about the woodstove heating only a small area.
there was a 5 degree temperature difference between the livingroom and the
hallway and kitchen.  the hallway and kitchen connect directly to the
livingroom.  the bedrooms were even colder.  natch, the cats and i slept on
the sofa.  that was a teensy bit crowded.<smile>

kate

Been waiting to hear how you were doing Kate.  My brother and his wife were
only out 3 days but their neighbor has been out for 7 as of today.  They had
the two of them and their dog and another family of 4 live at their house
since Sunday but they finally left the night before last (the dog peed on
the carpet and I think they figured the welcome was probably over).  Since
they have just been on holidays, had a reno done and came home in the dark
and been working full out (both of them) it has been a long week.  Susie
phoned last night and had just started shopping and deciding what to feed us
this weekend.  Allan (her husband) is somewhere on holidays in the East
(changes every day this week) and Kyle is just a little hyped up.  Been
quite a week.  Susie and Allan generally love company but think this time it
was tough.

Anyhow we didn't get the anticipated storm last night and it isn't raining
today so.....

Off to the doctors to renew prescriptions.  Have my infusion date for
January 4th.

Glad to see you have internet Kate.  Allan and Susie still don't have
internet or tv. which wouldn't be a problem but Susie tries to work from
home for a couple of hours in the morning and evening.

Kelly

w0w!  your brother and sil had a full house!  that was way sweet of them.
lots of people have suffered quite a bit because of this storm.  y'know, i
heard (on the red cross radio i keep for emergencies) how only partial
electricity restoration has been occurring.  that seems strange, doesn't it.

in 1978, i think it was, we came back home from visiting butch's sister in
tahoe and the plumbing in our attic had frozen and ruptured while we were
gone.  good thing susie and allen came home from reno when they did.

as it was, and i was home the whole time, i lost all the food in the fridge
and fridge-freezer, even had to throw out about half of what was in the two
stuffed-full upright freezers (the big one is alex's upright), despite the
bags-of-ice precautions we tried.  it probably would have been worse,
without the bags of ice.

good luck with your first infusion, sweetie.  hope it starts helping you
right away!

kate

Glad to hear you got your power back, Kate. I have friends down that way
who are still without power and they are saying they'll be lucky to have
it back by Christmas. They are in an area where a lot of trees have to
be removed before the linemen can even get in there.  I'm SO glad I
moved up here to B'ham. We flickered a bit, but that was all. We did
lose power last night for a while during that lightning and thunderstorm
that went through here. There was also a LOT of rain (the ducks in my
pond are happy :-)) and a lot of wind.  But the sun is out now, so all
is good :)))

Enjoy the warmth :)

Carole :)

thanks, carole.  sooooo glad to hear you fared ok, sweetie.  i was really
worried about you and especially when i heard last nights' storm was going
to hit b'ham, along with a few other places, hardest.  "all's well that ends
well."<smile>

kate

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