KY's Perfect Storm

[Canon_Bob]

Here in Florida, we live with major outages (and poor FEMA support) after every major hurricane. I know we keep a pretty healthy stockpile at our house during hurricane season. We also have a generator and transfer switch, because you may be a week or more without power. Lot's of gas too (plus you always top off your vehicles as a storm approaches. It's just a way of life here, and part of the price you pay for the nice winters.

In places like KY, though, where natural disasters are rare....I'll bet it was tough. Glad you're OK Ron.

[Ron Kruger]

I know a lot of people, Bob, who are adopting a Florida attitude of preparedness.
The weather has been wild around here for months. Today the wind was gusting to 60 mph, and though I thought every limb that could fall had fallen, more of them hit my roof and took out my bird feeder.
And then, of all things, we lost power again for a few hours.
It's then end of the word as we know it, I'm telling you.

[Loupey]

Ron, strange coincidence but the strong line of storms that blew through Ohio two days ago knocked out power to some 200,000 homes (mine included) - although nothing like the problems you had in KY with the cold, ice, snow - but similar to when hurricane Ike blew through here last fall.

Most everyone in my neighborhood checked into hotels. I've got enough firewood to make it to Sunday night (scheduled power restoration). My on-line time will be somewhat limited until then

[Dylan8i]

loupey we lost power here to, although only for a few hours.

[paulnj]

Wow, that's some serious ice there!

[bwood63]

We too lost power for 2 weeks in mid December. It is a pain, no power, no heat, you can't even find gas because they need power to run. You could always tell who had a generator. here are a couple I took the day after the storm on my way up to gardner, Ma. (yes doing the ever dangerious snapping shots while I was driving) I had to like the Ice on one side and the sun shining on the opposite side that had melted during the day..I wish I had a camera with me the first day when there were trees/power lines down all over the roads...

[Knight]

Glad to C things are on there way to being better for you Ron, I remember working 31 straight 16 hour shifts in the 1998 ice storm here in Québec. It was pure hell for people with the temperature being bellow freezing. I pray every chance i get to never have to witness such a disaster again. There was not a day during those 31 days that did not bring tears to my eyes seeing all the suffering and hardship people had to endure.I think the hardest part was going home at night knowing that hundreds of thousands still had no power.

[Loupey]

Glad to C things are on there way to being better for you Ron, I remember working 31 straight 16 hour shifts in the 1998 ice storm here in Québec. It was pure hell for people with the temperature being bellow freezing. I pray every chance i get to never have to witness such a disaster again. There was not a day during those 31 days that did not bring tears to my eyes seeing all the suffering and hardship people had to endure.I think the hardest part was going home at night knowing that hundreds of thousands still had no power.

I was up there meeting with clients shortly after most of the power was restored.

Seeing all those high power transmission towers toppled over like a pile of broken matchsticks, one after another after another, was unreal. Looked like a war zone (although I have no personal experience in war).