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Post by mrky03 on Feb 2, 2009 19:23:39 GMT -5
Well guys I just got my electricity back last night! We had been without it since Tuesday night due the biggest ice storm in Kentucky's history! Lots of people haven't got power yet including my parents and my wifes parents. Trees are broken down all over the place. Transformers and over 200 utility poles are down in our community alone. We sure are dependent on electricity and it really makes you realize how fortunate you are to only go though an inconvenience for just a few days instead of weeks or months like people in other parts of the country have.
At least the gym was only closed for a couple of days so I was able to go do something normal! I didn't miss any work but there was a water shortage due to the pumps being down at the water treatment plants. Things seem to be getting back to normal now.
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Post by Roger on Feb 2, 2009 20:09:26 GMT -5
I was wondering if the weather had hit you area. Arkansas was hit, but not nearly as bad as you. Glad to hear things are getting back to normal.
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Post by mrbeefy on Feb 2, 2009 21:14:01 GMT -5
Wow! I've been reading all about it up here in Cleveland. We had a LOT of snow, but not the ice you guys had.
Glad you're hanging tough and things are getting back to normal!
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Post by RUBICON19 on Feb 2, 2009 22:01:10 GMT -5
Glad to hear you are back up and running!
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Post by fit on Feb 2, 2009 22:12:45 GMT -5
Welcome back! We're too cold up here for ice like that but I remember it from my Cincy and Lincon days
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Post by Intensity on Feb 3, 2009 10:37:01 GMT -5
Joel, do you know what may happen 9 months from now in Kentucky's area? The same thing that happens 9 months after every important electricity breakdown... A BABY BOOM! ;D
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Post by GerryT on Feb 3, 2009 13:05:37 GMT -5
lol, Mo!
Glad you are OK, Joel. Sorry to hear. We have snow coming down pretty heavily right now. Suposed to be cold tonight, so it will not be fun for tomorrow morning.
Hope the rest of the winter will be OK.
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Post by mrky03 on Feb 3, 2009 18:42:56 GMT -5
Joel, do you know what may happen 9 months from now in Kentucky's area? The same thing that happens 9 months after every important electricity breakdown... A BABY BOOM! ;D ;D Luckily I've had that taken care of! |
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Post by mrky03 on Feb 3, 2009 18:47:04 GMT -5
Thanks everybody! There are still a lot of people without power, a local county has 95% of the power out. Its getting really cold now (low teens) but is supposed to be back up in the mid 50's by Saturday! This weather is just crazy!
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Post by mrbeefy on Feb 3, 2009 20:34:21 GMT -5
Storms, ice, cold....
And outside Anchorage there is a vocano brewing!
What the hell?!?!?!?
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Post by youngblood on Feb 3, 2009 22:55:21 GMT -5
Thanks everybody! There are still a lot of people without power, a local county has 95% of the power out. Its getting really cold now (low teens) but is supposed to be back up in the mid 50's by Saturday! This weather is just crazy! While plodding along on the treadmill today, I was watching CNN, and they said that there are over a quarter of a million people without power!!!!  250,000 people!!! Hell, I didn't even know the state had that many residents!!!! ;D |
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Post by mrky03 on Feb 4, 2009 15:52:27 GMT -5
Its like it doesn't matter where you live in the country, there is always something going on with the weather! Hurricane's, wildfires, earthquakes, ice storms, tornados.......  |
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Post by Roger on Feb 4, 2009 20:22:42 GMT -5
There is a book written a very long time ago. It tells of all these thing happening now. Maybe it is time the world woke up to what is really coming. Just my 2 cents
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Post by nwtrnr on Feb 5, 2009 1:41:24 GMT -5
We will all be glad when Spring is here !
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Post by mrbeefy on Feb 5, 2009 6:24:42 GMT -5
Roger... I think it was Nostradamus!
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Post by mrbeefy on Feb 5, 2009 14:35:51 GMT -5
These are ALL true...THANK YOU VINCE !
Subject: : Jeff Foxworthy on Cleveland
If your Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,
you live in Cleveland
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't
work there,
you live in Cleveland
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
you live in Cleveland
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone
who dialed a wrong number, you live in Cleveland
If "vacation" means going anywhere south of I-80 for the weekend,
you live in Cleveland
If you measure distance in hours, you live in Cleveland
If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again
you live in Cleveland
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow
during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Cleveland
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them,
you live in Cleveland
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,
you live in Cleveland
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --
you're going 80 andeverybody is passing you, you live in Cleveland
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow, you live in Cleveland
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter,
still winter and road construction, you live in Cleveland
If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car,
you live in Cleveland
If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly",
you live in Cleveland
If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your
Cleveland friends & others, you live or have lived in Cleveland
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Post by mrky03 on Feb 9, 2009 18:57:37 GMT -5
There is a book written a very long time ago. It tells of all these thing happening now. Maybe it is time the world woke up to what is really coming. Just my 2 cents Agreed Roger! |
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Post by fit on Feb 9, 2009 19:52:50 GMT -5
There is a book written a very long time ago. It tells of all these thing happening now. Maybe it is time the world woke up to what is really coming. Just my 2 cents Donuts? Donuts are coming? Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by mrky03 on Feb 10, 2009 19:54:26 GMT -5
This week the temperature is up to the mid 60's and were getting a lot of rain today and tomorrow with wind gusts up to 60 mph! Hopefully it doesn't knock the power out again! There are people who still haven't got electric back yet!
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