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And staying on. Saturday it was like having a strobelight on barbituates around here. Power off. Power on. Power off. Power on. Fried my computer monitor but happily mom had a spare left from when she upgraded her pc. Landline phone is still out from the branch that came down on it.
Got maybe 2 inches of very wet very heavy snow here. Throughout the county it ranged from 5 to 12 inches. In Berks alone there were/still are 65,000 without power at all. We were fortunate here.
In more ways than one. At one point during the storm I went out to look around at the growing damage when I heard the CRACK felt the snow and ice on my neck and back and remembered how to run seconds before the thigh thick widow-maker came down where I had been standing.
Elderly gentleman over in Alsace Township wasn't so fortunate. He was killed while sleeping in his recliner when a similar branch crashed through the roof of his mobile home.
So I'm back online. Got a good bit of chainsaw work ahead of me this week, though.
How'd the rest of you make out?
- There Are Days And There Are Days
7 days before spring.1 day after 14 inches of STUFF, about half which was frozen rain which melted together into a sheet on top of which we got 7 inches of snow. Since the snow sat on ice I could not use the snow blower because the wheels just spun.The...
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When I was a kid we'd have winters of snow and ice and cold like this all the time. The difference was back then we would be out sledding, building snow forts, having snowball battles. Then, soaked and shivering caked in snow ice in our hair and...
- "anderson, It Doesn’t Matter.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s response to Anderson Cooper when he confronted her with evidence that Mitt Romney explicitly said he DOES NOT SUPPORT the abortion plank of the Republican Convention. Schultz had just claimed ROMNEY CREATED IT.So what...
- Holy Shit. . .
Blizzard conditions here in southeast Pa. 16 inches on top of the 18 we had. Blowing and drifting can't see across the street and we're only 1/2 way through it. The city has declared it's first ever snow emergency. The county has shut down....
- Huge Outage Hits Us And Our Servers
Sorry folks...if you were looking for us at Villagers with Torches since about 5PM EDST yesterday, we had a huge storm with 70 mph + winds for about 12-20 hours, and 3+ inches of rain, and 5 foot waves on the lake crashing over the shoreline...trees...
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Power's Back
And staying on. Saturday it was like having a strobelight on barbituates around here. Power off. Power on. Power off. Power on. Fried my computer monitor but happily mom had a spare left from when she upgraded her pc. Landline phone is still out from the branch that came down on it.
Got maybe 2 inches of very wet very heavy snow here. Throughout the county it ranged from 5 to 12 inches. In Berks alone there were/still are 65,000 without power at all. We were fortunate here.
In more ways than one. At one point during the storm I went out to look around at the growing damage when I heard the CRACK felt the snow and ice on my neck and back and remembered how to run seconds before the thigh thick widow-maker came down where I had been standing.
Elderly gentleman over in Alsace Township wasn't so fortunate. He was killed while sleeping in his recliner when a similar branch crashed through the roof of his mobile home.
So I'm back online. Got a good bit of chainsaw work ahead of me this week, though.
How'd the rest of you make out?
- There Are Days And There Are Days
7 days before spring.1 day after 14 inches of STUFF, about half which was frozen rain which melted together into a sheet on top of which we got 7 inches of snow. Since the snow sat on ice I could not use the snow blower because the wheels just spun.The...
-
When I was a kid we'd have winters of snow and ice and cold like this all the time. The difference was back then we would be out sledding, building snow forts, having snowball battles. Then, soaked and shivering caked in snow ice in our hair and...
- "anderson, It Doesn’t Matter.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s response to Anderson Cooper when he confronted her with evidence that Mitt Romney explicitly said he DOES NOT SUPPORT the abortion plank of the Republican Convention. Schultz had just claimed ROMNEY CREATED IT.So what...
- Holy Shit. . .
Blizzard conditions here in southeast Pa. 16 inches on top of the 18 we had. Blowing and drifting can't see across the street and we're only 1/2 way through it. The city has declared it's first ever snow emergency. The county has shut down....
- Huge Outage Hits Us And Our Servers
Sorry folks...if you were looking for us at Villagers with Torches since about 5PM EDST yesterday, we had a huge storm with 70 mph + winds for about 12-20 hours, and 3+ inches of rain, and 5 foot waves on the lake crashing over the shoreline...trees...