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Comments Off on back from the dark days caused by Ivan. No real damage here. A tree almost 2 miles from here went down and took out a block of poles and line ending in my parents front yard where the terminating pole was shattered and the drop to their house ripped loose from the transformer. Put several hundred (thousand?) people in the dark for about 2 days which isn't as bad as anticipated. And certainly nowhere as bad as we have had before.
We survived fairly well overall. Not even any trees down here. Or that I have seen so far. Lost a few limbs but nothing big even. I need to get out and start picking the limbs and such up but still trying to recover from the stress and rush of getting things tightened up and ready for Ivan. Spent a bit more than I wanted to on supplies and such but most will be used otherwise. The kerosine will get used this winter at the latest. The dual fuel one burner coleman stove will be a lifesaver when the power is out too. I suspect I will get another one or 2 of them for bigger meals too. With cast iron cookware it works fine. Will have to try some thinner stuff and see how it does there.
We moved to the 12 wide for yesterday and today till the power came back on around 4 this afternoon. Was different. Didn't want to come back here. Got to get the trees pushed over and the dirt moved and the 14 wide moved over here! Soon!
Got 8 blinds for the windows in the 12 wide at Big Lots. They had them for 2.99 where the ones at wally world were 3.89 and up. Still need 2 but can get them out of the 14 wide. Got one put up and 2 more out of their boxes before supper was hot. Frozen stuff that was thawing put in a frying pan and heated till done… Then the power came on and we spent an hour getting it all back over here and back settled.
Computer has taken most of my time catching up since. Am going to hit the sack in a bit. Will start on getting restarted on the multitude of projects, put on hold for Ivan, tomorrow.
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