Ice Storm!

[sundial]

Mudmucker, I hope you get your power turned on soon. It's no fun freezing in your own home. Did you have any structural damage?

[mudmucker]

Thank you very much. Fortunately no structural damage and no trees damaged the house, or conduits weren't ripped off from the house. There is one wire down on my property but I traced it back and it is only the cable. There will be alot of cleanup on the property though, downed trees and branches everywhere. No, it's no fun being cold in your house. But as I say, it could always be worse. But as I said earlier, new tricks to add to the bag and I am thinking of new and additional contingency plans for times such as this. No harm done....

[OakLeaf]

Mudmucker, glad you're OK. Wanna come show me how to wire my pump into the generator?

[mudmucker]

Mudmucker, glad you're OK. Wanna come show me how to wire my pump into the generator?

Thank you. I am so excited about this newly acquired knowledge I would love to share it with you

[bambu101]

This is what it looked like here in Western Mass:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.s...tegory=Weather

We have generators and kerosene heaters, and managed to stay warm, take showers, cook hot meals, and watch TV. We came home from getting more gasoline yesterday to find our neighbor scooping water from the brook to flush his toilets with (he had a woodstove, but no water). Some woman in town also nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning after running their generator in an attached garage with the door closed.

The ice is melting today with warmer temperatures, but the clean up is going to be a long process. The National Guard has been activated to help out.

I have lived in New England for 54 years, and this is the worst ice storm ever. It literally looked like a bomb went off.

[mudmucker]

This is what it looked like here in Western Mass:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.s...tegory=Weather

We have generators and kerosene heaters, and managed to stay warm, take showers, cook hot meals, and watch TV.

Wow. That's great. Excellent that you have the heat and hot water. Looks like temps will be somewhat reasonable the rest of the week.

I'm pilfering WiFi out of the building here at work from my personal laptop so I have access to TE.

I grew up in Greenfield. Where in western MA are you? Yes, I've been in New England for 48.5 yrs and I agree, worst I've seen.

[bambu101]

I am in Blandford, which is on the slopes of the Berkshires, and also referred to as the Hilltowns. We are at around 1400 feet in elevation, which means more snow and ice. The other towns in the valley got only rain.