re: Just got power back after 15 days

Glad you guys are safe

I’m damn sure getting one after this. I don’t care if I never use it.

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I think the cell producing the frozen rain sleet just parked itself over the Oxford/Tupelo area.

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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.

God bless, damn that sucks.

Glad you and your family made it thru this terrible ordeal. When power goes off for just a little while, people freak out and piss and moan that they missed a soap opera or some shite. But that storm was real and devasting to a lot of people. Congrats for getting back on the grid. Now I can start hating Ole Miss again.

Something like Paul on the road to Damascus when
power finally returns after hiatus.
About 20 years ago , we were hit with two back to back ice
storms (Ozark Mountains)...for a day or so , you could literally hear
the continuous snap and crashes as thousands of limbs and
even trees broke and came down. It didn't take any time for the power
to go out and stay off for over two weeks. What made this
one so deadly was the ice was followed by days of
freezing weather , single digit for 3 or 4 nights. We could not go
down the mountain on the small road for days. The one saving grace in our all-electric home
was a large cast iron wood heater which doubled as a cooking oven and was kept continuously
burning in the day & nice bed of coals each morning to restart.
A dead well water pump and rest room trips onto the icy slope outside was another story.

And to think the national media is not even covering this. Unbelievable.

Prayers from OK for all of you.

I feel that joy, man. We were out 4 weeks after Hurricane Ida. You can make-do camp style in the winter time with a fireplace and a gas stove, but it's hell without little daily conveniences like being able to take a hot shower, wash/dry clothes, use a refrigerator/deep freezer. Being cooped up in one room in the summer running a window unit via generator for a month is the absolute pits. Was a steady chore of hunting gasoline and trying to keep the deep freezer full of meat and fish from thawing out. Glad to see you're back to civilization.

I lost power for two days and that was bad enough. It was zero one morning and the old fireplace did enough to keep us from hypothermia.

But I can’t imagine what you went through. Glad some Kentucky boys got down there to help.

Take this opportunity to stock up on firewood.