CrazyManda
02-03-2009, 12:52 PM
Phew....the ice storm hit us Monday night and we lost power Tuesday afternoon and just got it back on today. Let me tell ya....I thought I was going to snap. We still don't have water, lines are frozen but atleast we have electricity back. Trying to read or cook or do anything at all by candlelight and kerosene lantern is cool and neat..for about the first day.:rolleyes:
FEMA showed up a few days ago and was giving out gallons of water so that helped and my parents had water so we went there one time to shower and do dishes. We had a LOT of damage in our area, and many are still without power. School is closed indefinitely now, we have a backyard and back area of the horse pen full of uprooted trees, limbs and branches. We have power lines down on the farm and we did have a lot down all over the roads....posts for the power lines have snapped in half across town. The town has a 7pm curfew. The gas stations last Thursday were packed....lines backed up for a quarter of a mile and we had to wait in line for nearly 2 hours..ran out of gas IN the road and Auren had to push us in. Remember there was ice everywhere and power kept going out every few minutes.
The chicken houses have been going on generators for 7 days straight now and that's the only thing keeping them going. We had 2 break down that we rushed around to make sure the chickens didn't die of suffocation. Very VERY stressful week it's been.
We have some fence down in a couple places and we haven't been in our pine forest yet..but it sounded like we have lots and lots of trees and limbs down:(
During the worst of it we had to bring the horses up and keep them in the pen. I was scared they wouldn't drink and end up colicking and I had no idea at the time how much fence was down and didn't wnat them getting out. So I blanketed them...Chanti didn't grow a thick enough coat and she shivered almost non stop and she stopped drinking for a while.
The stores here were absolutely nuts...a lot of them had to close and you couldn't find kerosene, candles or any type of batteries. The neighborhood pulled together..I heard all the time on the radio of families who had power would invite strangers to their home so they could have a shower, or water,etc. I have no idea what's happening with the black filly or the 17 hh QH gelding that we were going to check into. We had no way of contacting the people.
FEMA showed up a few days ago and was giving out gallons of water so that helped and my parents had water so we went there one time to shower and do dishes. We had a LOT of damage in our area, and many are still without power. School is closed indefinitely now, we have a backyard and back area of the horse pen full of uprooted trees, limbs and branches. We have power lines down on the farm and we did have a lot down all over the roads....posts for the power lines have snapped in half across town. The town has a 7pm curfew. The gas stations last Thursday were packed....lines backed up for a quarter of a mile and we had to wait in line for nearly 2 hours..ran out of gas IN the road and Auren had to push us in. Remember there was ice everywhere and power kept going out every few minutes.
The chicken houses have been going on generators for 7 days straight now and that's the only thing keeping them going. We had 2 break down that we rushed around to make sure the chickens didn't die of suffocation. Very VERY stressful week it's been.
We have some fence down in a couple places and we haven't been in our pine forest yet..but it sounded like we have lots and lots of trees and limbs down:(
During the worst of it we had to bring the horses up and keep them in the pen. I was scared they wouldn't drink and end up colicking and I had no idea at the time how much fence was down and didn't wnat them getting out. So I blanketed them...Chanti didn't grow a thick enough coat and she shivered almost non stop and she stopped drinking for a while.
The stores here were absolutely nuts...a lot of them had to close and you couldn't find kerosene, candles or any type of batteries. The neighborhood pulled together..I heard all the time on the radio of families who had power would invite strangers to their home so they could have a shower, or water,etc. I have no idea what's happening with the black filly or the 17 hh QH gelding that we were going to check into. We had no way of contacting the people.