Power

[Donyell]

If your going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Luv those old hippie days even though I wasn't one of them. 11:50am in Lisbon Tuesday and we have power , never did lose it. Flicked on and off many times yesterday and thought sooner or later the hammer would fall but never did. All around us are many small towns that have major power loses so we consider ourselves very lucky.

 

[pepband99]

Off in Monroe since dinner time last night. It's going to be a couple of days, at least, from inaction seen so dar

 

[dapriest]

1. A big HELL YEAH to the line guys. Helluva tough job. I saw three working on the lines up the road from us in the rain, dark sky, raging creek right next to the lineman on the pole. Gave them each a 10$ gift card to a restaurant up the road - have a coffee and burger on me fellas.

2. Every time the power goes out it makes me really, really appreciate that I'm alive at a time, and that I live in a place, where 24/7/365 electricity is the expectation, with an occasional outage. As I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate how good I've had it over the last several decades. And if I ever feel sorry for myself, I take a drive out to Amish country. Nothing quite so eerie as driving down a long country road on a very dark night and house after house after house is an impermeable black, with not a candle lit, and particularly in winter, with no snow or moon, when it's dark like that at 9PM.

 

[Devland]

I kinda wanted to jump on the everything's AOK out west, but I have lot's of family back east. I hope everyone is ok. This is a scary storm.

As for our natural disasters out here, I'll take them all day long. I've lived here almost 30 years and I bet it's at least 10 to 1 CT vs CA for deaths from natural disaster stuff during that time. We get an earthquake once every 20 years that kills a few dozen and some fires that take another maybe 5 or 10 a year. You guys get blizzards that take out dozens every winter, plus tornadoes and hurricanes that just womp you. On top of that, you have to deal with that weather. WTF are you people thinking? There's the bottom 1/3rd of this country that has plenty of space and has such a better climate.

Last year I went to the Rose Bowl and came home with a sunburn on my face. You were dealing with ice damns and snow and oil bills and week plus power outages. It's a crappy place to live. Leave!

Storrs CT-The safest place to be
" After much debate, then, we settled on Slate's "America's Best Place to Avoid Death Due to Natural Disaster": the area in and around Storrs, Conn., home to the University of Connecticut."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...2005/09/where_to_hide_from_mother_nature.html

 

[huskiesnyc]

The west is for cowards.

KO moved to CT from Compton to get away from the cowards.