I AM NOT AN IDIOT!!!!!! HAHAHA!!!! MY Y2K PREPS WERE NOT IN VAIN. TOTAL POWER LOSS HERE IN CECIL COUNTY MARYLAND AND IT'S 20 FRICKIN DEGREES OUTSIDE WITH A WIND CHILL OF -5 AND WE ARE THE ONLY ONES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH POWER!!!!!

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Every dog has it's day. My came tonight. My preps were not in vain as we are in the middle of a total blackout. No power. Phone OK. I feel a little better about my preps now.....shew!! Better safe than sorry.

-- Jim Torrez (jimtorrez21@hotmail.com), January 13, 2000

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Good for you Jim. Why is the power down? Wind? What are the neighbors doing to deal with the power loss? Mousie

-- Mousie (mousie@mymousehole.com), January 13, 2000.

Hooray!!

-- I'mSo (happy@prepped.com), January 13, 2000.

Please let us know how long the outage lasts. Any neighbors at your house? Thanks for checking in.

-- Patricia (asap@aloha.net), January 13, 2000.

Pleased for you. Anyone that says preps are a waste can call you for verification, right? Good going. And living in Earthquake Central, So. Calif., I know just what you mean by being prepared.

One never knows when it will be their turn.

-- Richard (Astral-Acres@webtv.net), January 13, 2000.


I am not a crook.

-- Richard Nixon (r@n.com), January 13, 2000.


I could use about a blackout over here. About a weekshould do nicely to revive my trampled ego .......

>"<

-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.tree), January 13, 2000.


Jim---- So how did you post to the internet without power?

-- Jenny (HomeFor@Good.Now), January 13, 2000.

Hate to rain on your parade, but the wind is gusting to 50 mph. Still it is nice to be prepped, flue, wind or y2k.

Your neighbor in Del.

-- Surrounded (Hiding@thefirststate.com), January 13, 2000.


Ack! NO, Squirrel Hunter, no no no no no no no.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), January 13, 2000.

Wow! this is exciting. You brought out the pollies better than I could. ProudPolly gives us a usual example of profound discourse. But, Jenny did ask a good question. How DID you get on the internet without power? Batteries? Power inverter? is your phone working? Keep us posted.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 13, 2000.


Fess up, Jim, how did you access the Internet?

-- Stupido with (supplies@home.com), January 13, 2000.

If he has a notebook computer like mine, his battery is good for up to an hour and a half only. He may have logged off by now. (He says his phone is okay.)

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), January 13, 2000.

Tesla energy.

Sorry, A & L. I NEEEED the real thing now. Enough talk, enough type, enough electronic data exchange through these interfaces. can't handle it .... neeeeeeeeeed reeeeeeeeeeaaaal YYYYY222222KKKKK!!

>>>>>>>"<<<<<<<<

-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.tree), January 13, 2000.


Jose et al: read his post again. He has a genny and the phone lines are still ok. The Genny supplies power to the house, the power runs the puter, the message comes to us over the net.

duh

-- (formerly@nowhere.zzz), January 13, 2000.


Jim,

Do you have any neighbors that are elderly, or with small children? They may need to be checked on. This kind of event leaves a body count. Please check on your neighbors.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 13, 2000.



Yeah ok...make us feel stupider. =P

-- Cin (Cinlooo@aol.com), January 13, 2000.

Jim

50mph winds...wow. Have you seen any flying squirrels?;)

-- PA Engineer (PA Engineer@longtimelurker.com), January 13, 2000.


No, I got no genny. Let me move back under my rock. Damn Truth!

-- Stupido with (supplies@home.com), January 13, 2000.

Congratulations. You have successfully empowered yourself to laugh at power outages. Advance token to Reading Railroad, if you pass GO, collect $200. Feels pretty darn good, doesn't it?

Since power remains on in most of the country, we'll assume that the problem is isolated, possibly weather related and that your power will be restored shortly.

Please let us know how long the power was off and how well you handled it. Could you have gone 24 hours? 48?

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), January 13, 2000.


How wonderfully nice for you, YOU IDIOT. I wish someone would come and firebomb your house. Being so happy about a power outage doesn't hide the fact that you are a gullible fool.

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), January 13, 2000.

Mr. Sane

If you would have been sane enough to prepare, maybe you would have lights on at your house. Be careful with those candles.

-- justwondering (justwondering@giveitabreak.com), January 13, 2000.


Squirrel Hunter, be careful what you wish for! Hey, we're only prepped for a "3" and just read this:

NorthWest Headlines

"LONG RANGE SNOW ON ITS WAY
Oregon Climatologist Sees Much More
Oregon's chief weatherman says the recent splash of snow and slush in Portland and parts of the Willamette Valley are just a taste of things to come from La Nina. In fact, the ocean cooling pattern of La Nina could bring Oregon one of its harshest and snowiest winters in recent history - from the lowest valley to the highest mountaintop. This according to state climatologist George Taylor. He says conditions are developing that point to a big snowfall sometime this winter across the whole Willamette Valley. Taylor says the valley gets a big dump of snow about every other year, but hasn't had one now for the last three years."

Ya think we should warn him about public forecasting? ;^)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), January 14, 2000.


Jim, sounds like you were the only fully prepared GI family in your neighborhood. Expect visitors?

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 14, 2000.

Portland in snow - oh joy. Memories of negotiating Pill Hill with the streets ultra-slick and power lines snapping like guitar strings under the weight of the ice. How 'bout them curves coming down Terwilliger, eh? Physics experiments involving momentum and friction co-efficients...

Be safe and warm, O Cascadians.

-- DeeEmBee (macbeth1@pacbell.net), January 14, 2000.


Well. if his power setup is even CLOSE to mine he can surf andpost for a LONG time. (My APC 700 UPS was under powered so ai replaced the batts with a pair of 110 Ahr trolling batts for MY machine and Mrs Driver has the "spare" set of batts for HER 700)

chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 14, 2000.


aye. i live in Northern VA and WHAT'S THIS WITH THE WIND? i was safe in my skyscraper all day and drive home to see power out and lots of signals out. trees down, power lines down. had no idea it was this windy. but, my house had lights and water. yeah. i hope i don't get to prove my preps work. i like the comforts better. haha

-- tt (cuddluppy@aol.com), January 14, 2000.

Northern Virginia had power loss to 18,000 homes due to wind knocking out trees and power lines, etc.

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), January 14, 2000.

I heard that the praying mantises built their egg sacs four feet above the ground. Supposedly this means that we will get four feet of snow.

It's freezing in PA today. Hold on to your preps!

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), January 14, 2000.


Pretty sad when your utilities crumble just from 20 mph winds and no precip. Winds In Wichita, KS, today

-- Etta James (ej@umkc.edu), January 14, 2000.

Attention Jim,

Be on the look out for your yuppie neighbors out styling their hair into spikes or Mohawks and dying it purple if the power stays off for very long.

WW;)

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 14, 2000.


Jim, please update us on your *unexpected* visitors.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 14, 2000.

DeeEmBee, yep, know what you mean ~ ~ Worked on Pill Hill in Cancer Care & Bone Marrow Transplant, floated all around, did the Terwilliger Curves 2X/day :-) Year In Hell but we sure learned a lot. Thanks for the memories 'n 'warm' wishes!

Home care has serene solitude and so much better, safer working conditions ... usually ;^)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), January 14, 2000.


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