Date:         Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:26:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: power back on...yay!!
Comments: To: ralph meyermann <ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>
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We in Alabama lost power for four—and for some seven or more—days back in
the april tornadoes this year. The sky was fantastic, haven't seen the
Milky Way here since I was a kid. Neighbors met neighbors and helped out.
At least the weather was good, glad it wasn't in the winter like you
experienced. I would have had wood heat to rely on, most people around here
wouldn't. I had let my westy tank run out of propane, though. Thinks would
have gone a lot easier if I had not.

Jim

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:51 PM, ralph meyermann
<ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>wrote:

> We had something like that about 10 yrs ago here in Iowa on halloween
> night!!! I was lucky just a day and a half without power!! Had wood
> fireplace and gas stove to cook with!!! Just don't know how good we have it
> till its gone!!!
>
> Velma 82diesel 1.6 na westy
>
> On Oct 31, 2011 8:16 PM, <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
>
> nvc..but...just got my power back on at 7pm after being without
> power/heat/or water since early Saturday morning because of this freak
> halloween
> snowstorm here in the northeast...
>
> what a mess..  trees down everywhere...
>
> had a branch fall on the primary wire in my backyard, caught fire, called
> the fire dept, they couldn't respond so i just sat there and watched it
> burn
>  till it burned thru the wire..
>
> many in the area are still w/o power... i was lucky they were able to  get
> to it...
>