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Holy crap, what a way to put life in perspective. The windstorm was the most amazing weather event I've ever encountered, and the jolt into caveman-living that followed just about sent me over the edge.

I still feel detached from modern reality. The only thing I can say is "Thank God" for good neighbors. We pitched in together and shared and communed with one another when things seemed hopeless.

Anyone heard from Lanse? I see that 35,000 in Montgomery County are still without power.
 
IM BACK EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!

Last night i was taking the trash out a little after dusk, and i saw this big yellow glow over the hill. I wondered what it was, and a second or two later 5 bucket trucks and sevral more pickups came over the hill. Theyre from New York, Dayton power and light (DP&L) has people here from 10 states. THEM YANKEES IS ALL-RIGHT!!! :)

I've got the radio on real loud and after a while im going to take a shower then watch TV. Life is good. Going to bed at 8:30 and laying there with your eyes open for an hour was interesting. I went to my first high school football game for lack of anything better to do, and started some other stuff. More on that later ;-)

Glad to hear yer OK Bill. How are you watering your animals??? The 5 mile trip by tractor to the county building was interesting. Thanks for thinking of me, and Who else are we missing???
 
I guess I was really lucky mine was out Sun. at 7:00 pm and back on Thurs. at 12:45 AM I at least had a gen. I ran off and on for baths and cooking and to try to keep things from spoiling too bad. Costs too much to leave it run all the time.
 
(quoted from post at 11:52:51 09/22/08) Holy crap, what a way to put life in perspective. The windstorm was the most amazing weather event I've ever encountered, and the jolt into caveman-living that followed just about sent me over the edge.

I still feel detached from modern reality. The only thing I can say is "Thank God" for good neighbors. We pitched in together and shared and communed with one another when things seemed hopeless.

Anyone heard from Lanse? I see that 35,000 in Montgomery County are still without power.
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have been a electric lineman for quite a few years and it still feels good to get folks power back on.I take great pride in my work as do other lineman.Glad to hear you are back on the grid.coobie
 
Let me add to the good neighbors thing. Of our 4 neighbors, 1 had a generator, 1 had and knew how to use a chainsaw, one had electricity, and one (me) had a utility tractor and knew how to use it. Monday i spent driving around moving brush.

At night, if you went outside, you could hear sevral generators off in the distance. It reminded me of the old man i used to work for who said if you went outside in the spring you could hear the sound of old deeres out in the distance plowing away.
 
YANKEES!? Lanse, you do know you are WAY north of the Mason-Dixon line don't you? NY is East, not North. Anyway, nice job of pitching in and helping the community.
 
Coobie, even though my power was only out for two hours, thanks. I know what it's like to work for long hours for days. Anyone that whines about the power companies taking days to get power on, needs to spend a couple of days in a bucket working.
 
Good going guys, at least you weren't moping about no computer and all those comforts of life. I grew up on a dairy farm where the power went out if a bird peed on the line but that was the days of outhouses and Saturday night baths it really was peaceful, would I go back to them? Maybe but some modern things are nice it just puts things into perspective. Coobie, my hats off to you guys they at least had some decent weather to fix the problem most people don't know you guys have to do the repairs regardless of the weather conditions.
 
(quoted from post at 15:39:08 09/22/08) Coobie, even though my power was only out for two hours, thanks. I know what it's like to work for long hours for days. Anyone that whines about the power companies taking days to get power on, needs to spend a couple of days in a bucket working.
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hanks,we sent 15 crews to Ohio and 96 lineman to Texas for hurricane ike damage.coobie
 
Holland rings a bell, and ease aurora was pretty close, i recognise the name and remember hearing about it. I've probabally been through there a time or two.
 
(quoted from post at 15:59:12 09/22/08) Good going guys, at least you weren't moping about no computer and all those comforts of life. I grew up on a dairy farm where the power went out if a bird peed on the line but that was the days of outhouses and Saturday night baths it really was peaceful, would I go back to them? Maybe but some modern things are nice it just puts things into perspective. Coobie, my hats off to you guys they at least had some decent weather to fix the problem most people don't know you guys have to do the repairs regardless of the weather conditions.
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ou are correct on the weather conditions. The last 31 years have I have put power on in snow,,sleet,ice,lighting & rain to name a few weather conditons.It feels good to put the power back on in dry sunny weather.coobie
 
I know that hospital, my dad was the preacher at the Warsaw church (the 2 churches joined together) in 2003-2004. I used to go with him and hang around there when he was going on calls there. Ya know the county building there?? That huge glass and brick thing??? Behind it, on west court street, at the corner there of that street and i want to say Linville st, but im not going to, is 35 W court street. Last i knew it was grey and white. That is my old house.

I also lived in the apartments next to the YMCA.

And im only saying this because its been years since i've been there and no one there would be able to find me now.

VERY small world :)
 
I was thinking the same thing but I understand what he means I was born in Norfolk Va. but have spent all but the first few months of my 34 years in mid and south Ga.
 
I was thinking the same thing but I understand what he means I was born in Norfolk Va. but have spent all but the first few months of my 34 years in mid and south Ga.
 
Some poeple can go overboard being ready. A fellow I work with placed an order today for a standby generator to run his whole house. He was out of power for 4 days. He bragged about of big it was and he would never be without power again! He went on to say it uses ONLY 3 gallons of LP per hour. He tends not to think things out. Since it won't be fulley loaded I estimate it will use 2 gallons of fuel an hour. Fuel price 2.50 per gallon, and 24 hour a day equals 120 dollars per day. I would set in the dark for 120 dollars a day! I see running one enough to keep freezers frozen and to pump water. 3 hours a day would be plenty. I hope his wife stops it before he gets started.
 
Have a 8hp 4000watt portable unit. Enough to run 2 refrigerators, 2 freezers, pump to keep us in water, and furnace if necessary. (Not all at the same time!) Even that uses a BUNCH of gasoline, and at $4+ it doesn"t take long to run the cost of home generated WAY up!
 
Here in Texas those lineman are the most popular people. When the power comes back on people run out and cheer in the streets. Most folks see those guys coming into the neighborhoods and they come out and offer drinks, food, beer, whatever they have to share.
Some of the crews are from as far away as Canada.
Friday I saw a long line of vehicles going west on I-10, when I passed them I saw they were the Los Angeles search and rescue teams going home.
As I passed each one I gave them a big thumbs up and a smile.
Sums up the attitude of all Texans, Thanks for all the help.
 
Glad to hear you guys are getting power back on!! Living out in rural Michigan just about guarantees you will have a generator. All of my neighbors and I have one. Only one who doesn't moved here from New York so he doesn't count. Our linemen do a great job, especially considering the weather and all that they have to work in. If you have a big enough generator to keep refrig, freezer, furnace, and well pump going you don't need anything else. My 4500 watt does that fine.
Paul
 
here in Tenn on I-40 we saw long strings of trucks from Ohio Edison, Davey tree Co., etc. headed your way day & night. Must've been thousands of trucks from all over the country.
 
There are many, many trucks. Power company trucks and tree service trucks. TV stations air views of the staging areas for these trucks is pretty impressive. Football stadium parking lots, Sam Houston horse race track parking lot, etc, filled with trucks. Must be 5 or 6 hundred trucks at each of the many areas. They are working 16 hour days doing a great job of fixing all the damage to the power grid. Just after the storm over 3 million customers had power outages. Now it's down to just over 600,000.
 
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