luv4chance
02-02-2009, 06:49 AM
Well, I haven't been on here for almost about a week now b/c the storm that hit Madisonville, KY Monday night, took out our entire town of power.
Monday night I went home expecting to be out of power for a few days. I still don't have power where I live. In the morning, it'll be a week. My husband is a lineman for Kentucky Utilities. Madisonville is slowly coming back up but some places outside of Madisonville can expect to wait up to 4 weeks b4 all the power is restored. The ice storm that hit is the worse known disaster to hit Kentucky in history. The trees are stripped of their limbs. The trees look like sticks; it looks like a tornado took the tops off all the trees.
Tuesday morning we were w/o power but I was staying warm by w/ 30 or so candles lite in my bedroom. The dogs were in the bed w/ me and I was home by myself. I still had a phone line so I was able to call & check on people; stayed on the phone for a pretty good while. Then the 2nd round of ice hit and that took out all the power in Madisonville; all the phone lines and all the cell phone lines. I had no contact w/ anybody for all day Wednesday; wasn't sure if my daughter was Ok; if my Mom & Dad & Brother were Ok just did alot of praying. I had no contact w/ my husband; 911 was down; everything was out. Power poles were broke in half; telephone poles were broke in half; power lines were everywhere hanging, laying in the roads, etc. Of all people to come check in me, my EX-husband showed up w/ a can of kerosene around 5pm. Shortly after he showed up, my daughter & her fiance pulled in. (thank God, my husband bought me a kerosene heater Monday night. I didn't know how to use it, so my neighbor showed up & gave me a crash course on a kerosene heater)
Thursday I ventured out and went to my Moms. Everyone was Ok; I had to travel 30 miles south to get gasoline for my truck; I had to travel another 30 miles to find kerosene for my heater. I went to SAMs whole sale in Clarksville, TN to stock up on supplies.
It was a mess and it still is. I'm at work today so I don't know when I'll be able to get back on here again. I have pictures that is amazing. Once I get power restored at home, I will upload them here.
And the kicker.----- it was 63 degrees yesterday. I took advantage of the weather & pulled limbs and logs off my electric fence. Oh by the way, my electric fence is destroyed; my chain link fence is destroyed; 2 panels of my round pen is bent; the food in my refrigerator and freezer is ruined. Anyway, what got the limbs off the fence that I cud lift myself. The other huge limbs, I put the saddle on Chance, wrapped a rope around the saddle seat & pommel, attacked the rope to the huge limbs and made Chance pull them off the fence. I lead him away pulling w/ limbs; of course, he's never been "driven" before but I made a "work horse" out of him yesterday. His job isn't finished. I still have plenty of limbs for him to pull but I was running out of day light, so I had to generically fix the fence as best as I cud before it got dark.
I was proud of my boy.
Monday night I went home expecting to be out of power for a few days. I still don't have power where I live. In the morning, it'll be a week. My husband is a lineman for Kentucky Utilities. Madisonville is slowly coming back up but some places outside of Madisonville can expect to wait up to 4 weeks b4 all the power is restored. The ice storm that hit is the worse known disaster to hit Kentucky in history. The trees are stripped of their limbs. The trees look like sticks; it looks like a tornado took the tops off all the trees.
Tuesday morning we were w/o power but I was staying warm by w/ 30 or so candles lite in my bedroom. The dogs were in the bed w/ me and I was home by myself. I still had a phone line so I was able to call & check on people; stayed on the phone for a pretty good while. Then the 2nd round of ice hit and that took out all the power in Madisonville; all the phone lines and all the cell phone lines. I had no contact w/ anybody for all day Wednesday; wasn't sure if my daughter was Ok; if my Mom & Dad & Brother were Ok just did alot of praying. I had no contact w/ my husband; 911 was down; everything was out. Power poles were broke in half; telephone poles were broke in half; power lines were everywhere hanging, laying in the roads, etc. Of all people to come check in me, my EX-husband showed up w/ a can of kerosene around 5pm. Shortly after he showed up, my daughter & her fiance pulled in. (thank God, my husband bought me a kerosene heater Monday night. I didn't know how to use it, so my neighbor showed up & gave me a crash course on a kerosene heater)
Thursday I ventured out and went to my Moms. Everyone was Ok; I had to travel 30 miles south to get gasoline for my truck; I had to travel another 30 miles to find kerosene for my heater. I went to SAMs whole sale in Clarksville, TN to stock up on supplies.
It was a mess and it still is. I'm at work today so I don't know when I'll be able to get back on here again. I have pictures that is amazing. Once I get power restored at home, I will upload them here.
And the kicker.----- it was 63 degrees yesterday. I took advantage of the weather & pulled limbs and logs off my electric fence. Oh by the way, my electric fence is destroyed; my chain link fence is destroyed; 2 panels of my round pen is bent; the food in my refrigerator and freezer is ruined. Anyway, what got the limbs off the fence that I cud lift myself. The other huge limbs, I put the saddle on Chance, wrapped a rope around the saddle seat & pommel, attacked the rope to the huge limbs and made Chance pull them off the fence. I lead him away pulling w/ limbs; of course, he's never been "driven" before but I made a "work horse" out of him yesterday. His job isn't finished. I still have plenty of limbs for him to pull but I was running out of day light, so I had to generically fix the fence as best as I cud before it got dark.
I was proud of my boy.