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Topic Started: Aug 2 2011, 11:26 PM (1,951 Views)
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Got 70 MPG?

I'd take a pill that would stop my lottery tickets from being losers, lol.

On the subject of storms: I live in western ky and in 2009 we had an ice storm that took out the power grid for almost the entire state. Where we lived at, at that time, we were only out of power for 5 days, but if I lived where I do now back then it would have been about a week and a half.

Our daughter was only a couple months old at the time. We were living in a trailer as well. We drove to my wife's aunt's house. (Which is just a few blocks from where we live now, but back then it was about 4 or 5 miles away) and stayed with them since they had a fire place. Doug, her uncle, and myself had to find firewood because they had none.

My wife's father had a bunch of firewood to spare, so we hopped into my old 2003 Eclipse GT and headed out to his house, which was about 15 miles away. Now keep in mind that this was one of the worst ice storms in record. The roads were a solid sheet of ice, and I'm talking about 2-3 inches thick here. We were heading down Hoover Hill, a VERY steep hill with sheer rock faces on each side of it. The ice was so thick and heavy that trees were breaking apart and just falling all over the place. There were several trees down on hoover hill. So here me and Doug are, sliding down this steep ass hill while barely dodging fallen trees left and right. We somehow managed to get to the bottom of that hill without wrecking the car.

We get to my wife's father's house and load up on firewood. No one was home, and it was out in the middle of the country as well. No power anywhere, pitch black except for our flashlights.

The best way to describe the sounds was like a war zone. The trees out in the forest were already frozen from the cold January weather. The ice laden tree limbs were breaking off and falling to the forest floor constantly. Every time one broke it sounded like a bomb going off, then you could hear the rustle of it falling to the ground from on high, while hitting other limbs and breaking them off as well on it's descent. Now that you have that image and sound in your mind, picture that happening CONSTANTLY. This was going on all over the forest, sometimes multiple breaks at once, causing the sound to be magnified.

So after an uneventful trip back home we finally get some heat in the house to keep our newborn daughter warm. We had Belinda's grandparents there as well. We took blankets and put them up over the walkways to keep all of the heat from the fireplace in that one room. It took a few weeks to get power back to the entire state, a lot of people bought t-shirt s saying, "I survived the ice storm of 2009".
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