Posted: 9/23/2003 4:35:40 PM EDT
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Got Power last night and phone tonight. 5 DAYS WITHOUT ARF.com sucks! |
| This outage must have caused a lot more damage than many realize. Yesterday, I encountered a convoy of trucks from power companies in Florida and Georgia that must have been a mile long. Dominion Virginia must have brought in every available body they could get. |
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I think it'd be interesting to hear about how your life was without power. How'd you cook your food, regrigeration, water? How about it? The longest I can remember being without power was the east coast blackout not to long ago and that was only for about 6 hours |
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The wife and I just got power back yesterday. 9 days and 5 hours without power. Man did that suck. For us no electricity means no water since we're on a well. We had a bathtub filled up with water, so we could flush the toilets. We also had about 20 gallons of water in jugs. We had to go over to my aunt and uncle's house for showers. They're about 20 minutes away. The first two days they didn't have power either, but since they are on city water we could at least take FREEZING showers. We tossed everything in the fridge. Ate out quite a bit. Used candles and flashlights for light. We just moved to our house about a month ago. Since we're out in the country a little bit we had planned on getting a generator, but mostly we wanted to get one before a winter ice storm. Looks like it should've been a little higher on the priority list. Oh well, our house and cars weren't damaged, but did lose 6 or 7 trees. I hope everyone else gets their power back soon. It's depressing coming home to a pitch black house. |
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Our's went out the nite of the 18th and we got power back on the 1st, then it went out again that night. Service was restored on the 2nd. Phone was temporarily restored on the 3rd. Cable cut back on yesterday. We cooked on the grill and camp stoves and had a couple of bonfires in the driveway to cook some hot dogs and roast marshmallows. Not too sure how the neighbors took to that, but the kids had a blast. Personally, I could have cared less if the power and phones came back or not, the only thing I really missed was the History Channel. |