I'm just about set. LG&E restored my power last night. Since my neighborhood was down, AND the individual lines to my house had been ripped free by a falling branch, I'd assumed I'd be down for a week or more.
This was the first extended outage I've ever experienced during cold weather. My brother described it as "camping in a really good tent.
My girlfriend ("J") had a generator she owns jointly with her Ex, so we fetched it. Along with a couple of space heaters, we took the edge off the cold. The last few days turned into working to cope, hooking up the generator, finding a secure place to put it, running extensions lines into the house, getting containers to carry gasoline, filling coolers with snow, and emptying my fridge, moving video game equipment and hooking it up so the kids wouldn't too bored, making supper on my grill standing in the snow...
Nice to be lazy again today, but there's something enjoyable about "survival mode".
Meanwhile, everything I did now has to be undone.
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Now that Spring is more or less springing, I hope your situation is more normalized and stable - power wise.
You know, I'm STILL not over that ice storm.
I spent months cutting up downed branches, but I need to get some more broken ones taken down from the trees.
I just spent two hours yesterday raking up small sticks so I could start mowing.
The BIGGEST thing, is that during the period when I was huddled in front of a gas log, and had someone else's family living with me, I missed a COBRA payment, so now I'm without medical insurance. I'm mired in the bureacracy trying to take advantage of Obama's new laws which should allow me to start it up again.
But, at least I'm employed again.
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