Lucky you for sure, I didn't enjoy replacing the food in the fridge twice in two months...I live in a town house style rent, but a basement instead of a garage area, so really no place to store a generator...I heated with a propane heater and kept milk and other neccessities in coolers using the snow...It worked and I was lucky enough to use the propane and a grill to cook on...We don't have well water, so that was a plus, but cold showers SUCK, so warmed water with the propane and washed...;-)
@glk001 Yeah.. we barely had food as it was, so.. we didn't eat much for 3 days. Someone I know used the snow as a fridge as well, lol we have gas stoves, so at least we could cook SOME food with that.
@Meina16 I do enjoy a gas stove for that, I mean turn the over on for heat too...I've hooked up a few generators for family and friends since October, I'm hoping they never get used for the length of time they had to be last year...North East Utilities, Hartford Electric, and CL&P, all the same company, but got their wrist slapped for the poor preformance in getting the power back on, but it will all be forgotten all too soon...
Naugatuck Valley Meina...I've been around long enough to see snow in October, but not the amount we got...This next week averages out to be the coldest thruout the year, so knock on wood, maybe that was the first and the last this season...Also been around long enough to see a winter or two without snow, or very little...But a night I'll never forget...
@glk001 Ahh, yeah, this was in Manchester, and that snowstorm just put me out pretty much. I don't ever remember going without power for more then 12 hours. We ended up getting people from Texas and all states towards us, of light company people helping us get our power back, a few people I know had no power for over a week. :/
HUrricane Irene puts us out for 5 days with no power...Alfred gots us for 3 days, but we got 10" of snow...Just before midnight we began to hear the tree limbs creaking and then all night long, all ya heard was teh creak and then the liimbs fallen thru the tree and hit the ground...Dozens of blue and orange flashes as the power lines broke and transformers blew...You took your life in your hands if ya walked anywhere near a tree or power lines...So many leaves on the trees, never again please...
No heat? Why not try the original heater: A warm, fluffy blanket!
I've seen trees break like that, but not from a snow storm -- from a bolt of lightning.
When I was a kid in Spokane, we had a pretty bad ice storm hit us pretty hard. Literally had icicles hanging from power lines for a week afterwards. It caused some tree branches to fall, but I don't recall anything quite this bad. Hope y'all are safe!
Lucky you for sure, I didn't enjoy replacing the food in the fridge twice in two months...I live in a town house style rent, but a basement instead of a garage area, so really no place to store a generator...I heated with a propane heater and kept milk and other neccessities in coolers using the snow...It worked and I was lucky enough to use the propane and a grill to cook on...We don't have well water, so that was a plus, but cold showers SUCK, so warmed water with the propane and washed...;-)
glk001 2 months ago
@glk001 Yeah.. we barely had food as it was, so.. we didn't eat much for 3 days. Someone I know used the snow as a fridge as well, lol we have gas stoves, so at least we could cook SOME food with that.
Meina16 2 months ago
@Meina16 I do enjoy a gas stove for that, I mean turn the over on for heat too...I've hooked up a few generators for family and friends since October, I'm hoping they never get used for the length of time they had to be last year...North East Utilities, Hartford Electric, and CL&P, all the same company, but got their wrist slapped for the poor preformance in getting the power back on, but it will all be forgotten all too soon...
glk001 2 months ago
@glk001 That's why we had people from even Texas helping us get our power back.
Meina16 2 months ago
Naugatuck Valley Meina...I've been around long enough to see snow in October, but not the amount we got...This next week averages out to be the coldest thruout the year, so knock on wood, maybe that was the first and the last this season...Also been around long enough to see a winter or two without snow, or very little...But a night I'll never forget...
glk001 2 months ago
@glk001 Ahh, yeah, this was in Manchester, and that snowstorm just put me out pretty much. I don't ever remember going without power for more then 12 hours. We ended up getting people from Texas and all states towards us, of light company people helping us get our power back, a few people I know had no power for over a week. :/
Meina16 2 months ago
HUrricane Irene puts us out for 5 days with no power...Alfred gots us for 3 days, but we got 10" of snow...Just before midnight we began to hear the tree limbs creaking and then all night long, all ya heard was teh creak and then the liimbs fallen thru the tree and hit the ground...Dozens of blue and orange flashes as the power lines broke and transformers blew...You took your life in your hands if ya walked anywhere near a tree or power lines...So many leaves on the trees, never again please...
glk001 2 months ago
@glk001 Where are you located if you don't mind me asking?
In the (almost) 20 years I've been alive, I've never had or seen a storm this bad. It's horrible :/
Meina16 2 months ago
No heat? Why not try the original heater: A warm, fluffy blanket!
I've seen trees break like that, but not from a snow storm -- from a bolt of lightning.
When I was a kid in Spokane, we had a pretty bad ice storm hit us pretty hard. Literally had icicles hanging from power lines for a week afterwards. It caused some tree branches to fall, but I don't recall anything quite this bad. Hope y'all are safe!
Stoudman 4 months ago
@Stoudman We're alright, Stoud. But we didn't have warm fluffy blankets. :/
Meina16 4 months ago