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re: Just got power back after 15 days
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:30 am to Swampcat
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:30 am to Swampcat
quote:You don't know what you are talking about or just had bad it was. We lost power for 5 days at the farm and it's far south of Oxford. I think the cell producing the frozen rain sleet just parked itself over the Oxford/Tupelo area.
What the hell is wrong with Mississippi! That’s beyond ridiculous!
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Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:31 am to BurnsideStyle
Sorry to hear about your troubles. That's pretty rough.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:32 am to BurnsideStyle
Glad you guys are safe 
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:41 am to BurnsideStyle
Glad to hear that you are back. We got a standby generator a few years back and wish we had done it sooner. Worth every penny for those types of situations.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:57 am to TigerLunatik
I’m damn sure getting one after this. I don’t care if I never use it.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:59 am to TMRebel
That's exactly how we felt and we've discovered that we've had to use it a lot more than we realized. If a squirrel farts in my neighborhood, limbs fall and the power goes out. Happened Friday as a matter of fact and the weather was gorgeous.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:29 am to Diamondawg
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I think the cell producing the frozen rain sleet just parked itself over the Oxford/Tupelo area.
Tupelo wasn't bad at all (we have family there) - we ended up staying there for 8 days until we got water and internet back at our place in Oxford. I had a crew at our house that worked all day Saturday and Sunday cutting trees and removing debris from our place. Luckily, the damage was nominal - the little barn/shed in the back had two trees snap and fall on it, so it's getting a new roof. A large oak had a couple limbs snap off and hit the side of our house, so we're getting a new roof and the gutters replaced.
All in all, it could have been much worse - there's still something like 1,000 homes in the county without power still. But, it's certainly not something I'd want to go through. The night of the storm sounded like a war zone with hearing limbs/trees snapping every 30 seconds. Driving around town, it's nuts seeing how much damage the storm did.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:48 am to Pickle_Weasel
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A large oak had a couple limbs snap off and hit the side of our house, so we're getting a new roof and the gutters replaced.
We also had all of our big trees cut down because of this as well. We saw too many trees falling through houses.
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The night of the storm sounded like a war zone with hearing limbs/trees snapping every 30 seconds. Driving around town, it's nuts seeing how much damage the storm did.
Sounds like you are describing what I went through with the freeze here before we got the generator. You're sitting there with basically no noise other than trees and limbs crashing into each other and the ground and buildings. It can cause a lot of anxiety knowing that your yard/house could be next.
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