From: "Robert Comer" 

> Richard and Bob are near the coast.

Nary a power burp down here.  We didn't even have any ice.

>I, however, am located in the dark and cold Upstate.

Wow, you guys had/have it rough  We do all our heating down here with
electricity so we'd have none without it. (I do have a fireplace I 'spose I
could burn something in, but that's nowhere near my bedroom!)

- Bob Comer


 wrote in message news:fa57vu82mcg7gmdp32nm2pv7mjftot4442{at}4ax.com...
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:56:47 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message news::
>
> >I take it your power is functional after the storms?
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> >"Richard B."  wrote in message
> >news:2sl6vu888ge37uf9un085rs17l6nha9ofd{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:22:19 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >> >(It is *especially* important not to lose a drinking contest to a
Swede!)
> >>
> >> LOL! That's what my friend Tommy said. He Has a few stories to tell of
> >> failed attempts.
> >>
> >> - Richard
> >
>
> Richard and Bob are near the coast.  I doubt if they got any ice down
> there.  I, however, am located in the dark and cold Upstate.
>
> I was pretty lucky - my power came back on Thursday afternoon (Thank
> you, Broad River Electric Co-op).  My father lives in town, though,
> and is on Duke Power.  His power has been out since 11:30 Wednesday
> night, and it doesn't look like it will be back on until Tuesday or
> Wednesday at the earliest since his is one of only two houses on his
> street that are still dark.  That makes him pretty low priority.
>
> He has gas logs, so he wouldn't freeze.  But he didn't have any way to
> heat any food and was sitting in the dark most of the time (note to
> self - buy him some flashlight batteries!).  Once his sister's power
> came back on Thursday night, I managed to convince him to go stay
> there since both he and my step-mother have both been sick with colds
> for the last couple of weeks.
>
> I spent yesterday afternoon clearing out his refrigerator and freezer.
> Ugh.  I think I'm going to have to add that to my list of things to do
> regularly when they're not home.  Lots of science experiments were
> hidden away on the backs of some of the shelves.
>
> Driving around is still pretty bad - not because of ice, though.
> Since the ground isn't frozen, most of the roads never got too bad,
> and they melted off pretty quickly.  It's because of the downed trees
> that are still on the roads.  Going around curves can be...
> interesting.

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