Might be out for a while...

[johno]

Glad it turned out okay for you too Alan. Hope it stays that way. I've seen greenhouses collapse with snow, and it's a sickening thought - you probably didn't sleep a wink keeping them cleared off.

Thanks everyone.

Turns out I'm busier than I had envisioned, and may be for a while. It will be possibly weeks before everybody has power. We had our neighbors over the first couple of days because we at least had a source of heat. There are only a few of us here now with power, and now we're sheltering our friends and family from town. There was a main line that was repaired nearby, and we and a few houses next door happened to have no damaged lines all the way to it. Miraculous. The houses further up towards the main road still don't have electricity.

Sounds like the National Guard is coming in with chainsaws so the line crews and cops can do their work more efficiently. The tree damage looks like massive tornado damage, poles and wire litter the streets and countryside. I hear Kentucky is also a disaster zone.

[flowerpower]

Glad to hear everyone is doing ok.

[plantsnobin]

Oh my, I can't imagine having to feed a bunch of people for days. I didn't can anything last year, and would really be up the creek. I just wonder how many wind and ice storms it will take for them to bury lines? A friend of ours works for the electric company and I asked him that after the last hurricane force wind storm we had. He said it was cheaper and easier to fix the broken lines than to pay for burying them. I just can't see that. I mean, sure it may cost less in one year to fix them, but surely if you averaged it out over maybe 5 or 10 years it would be better?