AllenOK
Executive Chef
First, I'd like to thank all of you for your heartfelt concerns.
It sounded like a war zone the first couple of days. We lost of a lot of limbs from trees, and suffered some damage to the fences from falling limbs. Luckily, nothing hit the house, and nobody was injured. We didn't loose any whole trees (I've seen several rootballs exposed in places). One of my neighbors put his place up for sale three weeks ago, and will now probably have to reduce the asking price, from all the storm debris. He's also probably going to have to take down a large maple in his backyard.
That said, we were off the grid for 9 days! My laptop could dail out and access the internet the first few days, but I quit that as I didn't have a way to recharge the battery at first. Once the generator arrived, we barely have enough output from that to run the fridge, a couple lights, the TV, and a space heater. I was given two space heaters. Unfortunately, they were "cheap", and shorted out within a day.
I am without home phone service, due to a gremlin in the wiring somewhere. A technician is supposed to arrive sometime "before" the 23td of Dec. Who knows when exactly that will be. Even when we do get phone service back, it will be a bit before we get internet back.
On top of everything else, I am now without any sort of transportation. My other half, PeppA, was involved in a wreck in my vehicle last night. She's a bit banged up and sore, but otherwise OK. The car, however, is totalled. To make matters worse, most of the kids' presents were in the car. The car is now at a towing company. I'll have to prove I'm the owner to remove any personal possessions from it.
I'll keep in touch, when I can, but remember, it's hit-or-miss as far as me getting online at work.
Keep the faith and Merry Christmas!
It sounded like a war zone the first couple of days. We lost of a lot of limbs from trees, and suffered some damage to the fences from falling limbs. Luckily, nothing hit the house, and nobody was injured. We didn't loose any whole trees (I've seen several rootballs exposed in places). One of my neighbors put his place up for sale three weeks ago, and will now probably have to reduce the asking price, from all the storm debris. He's also probably going to have to take down a large maple in his backyard.
That said, we were off the grid for 9 days! My laptop could dail out and access the internet the first few days, but I quit that as I didn't have a way to recharge the battery at first. Once the generator arrived, we barely have enough output from that to run the fridge, a couple lights, the TV, and a space heater. I was given two space heaters. Unfortunately, they were "cheap", and shorted out within a day.
I am without home phone service, due to a gremlin in the wiring somewhere. A technician is supposed to arrive sometime "before" the 23td of Dec. Who knows when exactly that will be. Even when we do get phone service back, it will be a bit before we get internet back.
On top of everything else, I am now without any sort of transportation. My other half, PeppA, was involved in a wreck in my vehicle last night. She's a bit banged up and sore, but otherwise OK. The car, however, is totalled. To make matters worse, most of the kids' presents were in the car. The car is now at a towing company. I'll have to prove I'm the owner to remove any personal possessions from it.
I'll keep in touch, when I can, but remember, it's hit-or-miss as far as me getting online at work.
Keep the faith and Merry Christmas!
