Bruce's Journal

[CntryBoy777]

Thanks for the update and really sorry about the power....glad ya hadn't emptied the pool....sure makes it much more convient instead of looking for a tree....hope their estimate is a few days off and ya get it back sooner....
Hope all goes well for DW and DD2....maybe things will go well enough ya can stay put.....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

UGH! Like CB777 said...hope it comes back sooner!

 

[Mike CHS]

We lost power when I was stationed in Memphis back in the mid 80's due to a massive winter ice storm in January and lost power for over a month but the damage went way on down in Mississippi. I don't envy you that have a 'real' winter every year.

 

[Mike CHS]

We lost power when I was stationed in Memphis back in the mid 80's due to a massive winter ice storm in January and lost power for over a month but the damage went way on down in Mississippi. I don't envy you that have a 'real' winter every year.

 

[Bruce]

Thanks for the update and really sorry about the power....glad ya hadn't emptied the pool....sure makes it much more convient instead of looking for a tree....hope their estimate is a few days off and ya get it back sooner....
Hope all goes well for DW and DD2....maybe things will go well enough ya can stay put.....

Could be worse you know, we could be in Puerto Rico!! Those poor people have been in a world of hurt for a month and there is no quick repair that can happen.

The pool is above ground, one needs to empty it below where the water from the filter goes back in the pool but not much more. The water is needed to keep the sides of the pool from caving in. Of course the last time we lost power, the pool was frozen. Tried collecting snow and melting it in front of the woodstove but you don't get much water from a 5 gallon bucket of snow!

(I will admit to having watered the grass beside the deck a couple of times last night)

 

[Mike CHS]

(I will admit to having watered the grass beside the deck a couple of times last night)

I didn't know the font could be made that small.

 

[Pastor Dave]

We lost power when I was stationed in Memphis back in the mid 80's due to a massive winter ice storm in January and lost power for over a month but the damage went way on down in Mississippi. I don't envy you that have a 'real' winter every year.

I seem to remember that storm. We moved back up to IN from TN one winter in mid 80's. We had a mini blizzard up in IN, but Dad was making a second haul of belongings, and said the storm had extended so far South it had become a huge ice storm.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That one was bad, but the one in '94 shutdown from Batesville to Dyersburg, Tn....several hundred miles....it is the one referenced whenever a storm arises around here.

 

[Pastor Dave]

Our bad blizzard we make reference to in IN was the "Blizzard of '78"

 

[goatgurl]

I remember that ice storm well, had no electric for 11 days but had propane heat and cook stove so all was well. the day we got power back I ran out of propane but had electric heaters and coleman stove to cook on so all was well. it was another 10 days before the propane truck could make it up my driveway. kind of makes you realize what you can get thru if you have to. you stay warm and dry Bruce.