Kentucky ice storm....

What to do with an abundance of snow????
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:rofl:
You're unpreppable right now!:tongue:
 
Gotcha covered, Sun
 
We got it pretty bad. Some friends still have no power yet. We got lucky and only lost power for about 2 days but only like 12 hours each day. But we heat with wood so we could cook and stay warm. 2 of our neighbors had trees fall on their houses so my sons had to help them clean up. A tree limb on the road cracked my windshield and my insurance won't pay to fix it since I have liability only. We just hankered down and cooked a big pot of chili on our wood burning stove and had hot chocolate and coffee.
 
All our ice and snow has finally disappeared!
 
Cool.......are there still some without power?
 
daredevil said:
Lets see....lost power monday night...had to stay at my brother's house 10 miles away, who also had no power, but had a wood burning stove...we kept warm....
Lost 3 days work....got to work on Friday with a ride.
Dug my truck out of the ice on Sat....
Would have done that before except my street was blocked on both ends, one by fallen
branches, the other side by fallen power lines..
Oh, got power back on about 3 p.m.friday afternoon
Other than that, we're fine...............now.
brother's power came back on Sunday.

Picture is my back yard on Tues. morning
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Like evryone else, I've seen the details of your experience on the news and ot seems as though your area got hit much harder than we did here in NH in December. We were only inconvienced for a weekend and it was definately more stressful to relocate with the pets than it was for us - let's both hope that it never happens again :prey:
 
I think last I heard about 500 left still to fix. (as of yesterday...)
 
I can recall power companies sending trucks and crews from all over the country to get NOLA back up....did they/are they doing that in KY? I think they did the same for some of the Florida disasters a few years back too....:thinking:

This ice storm has not been a major news priority here....you'd hardly know anything went on....:noidea:
 
precocious said:
I can recall power companies sending trucks and crews from all over the country to get NOLA back up....did they/are they doing that in KY? I think they did the same for some of the Florida disasters a few years back too....:thinking:

This ice storm has not been a major news priority here....you'd hardly know anything went on....:noidea:
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Yes they did...it was an out of state crew that got my power back on...:clap:
 
Explanation from an 'insider'

I worked for a MAJOR power utility for 25 years. We loved 'named storms' (hurricanes and tropical storms) and declared disasters.
From a management point of view, that meant that all available manpower and equipment was charged to a "storm account" that was like a giant insurance pool. This was GREAT for out budgets.
From a worker's point of view, that meant 16 hour work days, 7 days a week for 2-4 weeks straight. Anything over 40 hours a week was time and a half, anything over 60 hours is doubletime.
Don't get me wrong, I loved getting someone's power back on, all the guys did.
But the Feds and FEMA really had nothing to do with our restoring power.
 
We got lucky because our neighbor is a lineman and we had power fairly quickly. Didn't even lose anything in our fridge/freezer. They just got my BIL's power back on 2 days ago.
 
Connie, all you had to do was open the freezer, everything would have stayed frozen.
 
Or put it outside. It would have melted quick if I opened the freezer because we heat with wood so it was very warm in our house. We invited our neighbors, friends and family to come over if they needed to, but the were either heating with propane or kerosene or going to just wait it out. I was able to cook on our wood burning stove also so we did just fine.
 
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