Friday, September 19, 2008
IT"S FINALLY ON!!!
We're alive and kicking over here finally! After 5 DAYS of no power, we finally got it back on last night around 8 pm. I had just finished lighting the 50 candles (so it seemed) all around the house when the lights flipped on. What a glorious sight! There are still around 200,000 people without power though. I didn't think I'd ever move to Ohio to live through a hurricane. The winds reached a sustained force of 75 miles an hour with gusts in the upper 80's. I was afraid we were going to lose our deck! I will post pictures on our blog of the mess later. I have mountains of laundry to do now and groceries to buy. I know some people are losing power again even after their power was restored, so they're asking us all to conserve anyway. All I have to say is this: If I ever have to play Candyland or Battleship again anytime soon, it'll be way too soon!
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I'm glad it's back on and you guys can return to normal life. I hope your power doesn't go off again! -Jen
Do you remember life in Nebraska? The power used to go out so often that we owned a tractor driven generator. Just the trasfer box for that unit cost over four hundred dollars. But when that was needed (often), it was wonderful. We had to have the ventilation fans for our animals and so we had the generator.
Just before we moved there, there was an ice storm that knocked out power in the York area for over two months. You could not even buy a generator at that time. They were all taken from several states around.
Once we had an eight inch rain that happened in about an hour and a half. It was even bigger than I had ever seen in the Philippines! Fortunately, we lived on a hill. However, the over flow from our farm pond went over with a three foot high stream that was about thirty feet wide. It was scary, but did not harm us. When we saw the water coming down we got into the truck to go and see if the lagoons were broken, but luckly, they held. The pond had several acres of land that drained into it, so it had overflowed. The spillway was well seeded with broam grass, and did not erode, either.
You older kids may remember this happening. It was really something for us all. Almost like a huricane in Ohio!
Dad Clark
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