OT: FINALLY Got My Power Back!! :)

[amok]

After 5 long nights of staying in a hotel, I finally get to stay at home tonight 🙂. My internet withdrawal can end.

Hehe, and I used to think that all the old trees in my neighborhood were an attractive feature...

 

[ProviaFan]

Glad to hear you're back up and running. Isn't it a good feeling to get those boxen cranking out WUs again after an extended period of downtime? 😛

 

[Assimilator1]

Welcome back 🙂
So what are you crunching these days?

 

[Smoke]

What happened? An Ice Storm?

 

[amok]

Yes, it was an ice storm. I live in Lexington, KY.

As for my box, I'm not even going to admit to it Assimilator1 😉. This is the first extended period I've spent at home in the past several months, so its the first time in quite a while I've actually noticed how slow my computer is 😛. Will be upgrading it shortly, and will post the specs then.

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: amok
Yes, it was an ice storm. I live in Lexington, KY.

This storm is on it's way here now. It's already started raining this morning. From the weather reports, people are more conserned about flooding it this point. Flash flood warnings all weekend.
It's supposed to turn to ice, then snow tonight or tomorrow. Yea

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: amok
Yes, it was an ice storm. I live in Lexington, KY.

This storm is on it's way here now. It's already started raining this morning. From the weather reports, people are more conserned about flooding it this point. Flash flood warnings all weekend.
It's supposed to turn to ice, then snow tonight or tomorrow. Yea

Spacehead,

amok is talking about the ice storm from LAST Saturday....there are still 13,000 home without electricity in Lexington and it may be a few more days to get them up. 104,000 homes lost electricity last Sunday...including me...but my home was without for only 7 hours...a blessing!

 

[Assimilator1]

Thats a lot of homes!:Q🙁 ,want kind of ice storm are we talking about? ,golf ball size!?😕

 

[amok]

Lol, no golf-ball sized hail. What happened was that it rained pretty hard, then the temperature plumetted pretty quickly and all that water froze up on everything. On my way home last Saturday night I was marveling at how cool looking the trees were with about an inch of clear ice around all the branches. It was kindof like everything turned into ice sculptures with colors inside. Was beautiful until all that extra weight started snapping the branches, which tended to fall on power lines, cars, houses, etc. I've had to have my roof patched, but I got out luckier than some of my neighbors who had their cars parked outside 😉.

As for the numbers, they are a bit staggering when you consider that Lexington only has a population of around 600K. A significant percentage of the entire town was without power. I was lucky that mine went out early, because I was one of the first to get checked into a hotel. Most were full by Sunday night. You wouldn't believe some of the stupid things people did to stay warm because they had nowhere to go. Could you imagine actually bringing your grill inside your house and firing it up for the heat it could put out? I think 40 something people had to be treated for CO poisoning. Not a few people set their houses on fire by accident as well. It was crazy.

 

[CyGoR]

:Q:Q That's awfull!
I'm glad I've never had to experience such a situation..

You were saying that Lexington "only" has a population of 600K??
Well, that's almost more then Amsterdam, the largest city over here in The Netherlands 😀
And you even called that a town?? 🙂

more then 100K homes without power, it must have been very very bad!!
I'm glad your power is back up... Good luck!