Yuppers,
Power outage in our neigborhood tonight. On and off 3 times.
What to do?
How's about drink and use he camera?

First pick, before I got going.

Glass and candle (for Rimmy)

Where to start?

The night's drinkin'

Have another drink!

Actually,
I'm pissed off power came back on.
I would have have sat on the porch and read until dawn.
But I had to post how happy I was,
<<<<<dipshit.

Christ,
Boston is bright.

Yes, I have a steady hand.

I've never been happier than tonight.
Power goes out, need to amuse myself,
need to know myself,
need to enjoy myself,
fuck,
learn about myself,
there's more there.
I hope the power goes out every night.

Wow, you turn into a right poofter when yer drunk, don't you?

"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." :George Gobal

Nice shots, GB.
I wish my power would go out, cuz that wouldmean we were having a lovely storm.

Hell, I had no power for 2 days when Charley blew through Orlando last week. Some poor slobs still aint got no power around here. Hell, a bunch of poor bastards aint got no houses left in south Florida.

I love the rain.

Or listening to radio.

Actually, the last time power went out I had supper ready just before it went.

Afterwards I told the wife that I would be downstairs watching the news.

About 15 minutes later she came downstairs to find me watchint the 6" battery powered TV from the camper.

About the time the news was over, the cable went down!

So much for battery powered electronics.

abootin 15 minutes later she came downstairs too, mi cant findit? i watchint thu 6" battery powered TV frome thu camper. .

Less power to you, Grey.

I know, my mother-in-law lives in Edgewater, lost power for a day and had a tree drop a limb through her car's rear window and trunk. She got lucky and had no damage to her home. My 33 year-old brother-in-law lives with her. He's a piece of xit and prolly won't help with clean-up around the yard.

I remember being in a blizzard in 5th grade and power being out for 5 days. Nothing better than hot-chocolate straight out of the hot-water heater and baked beans cooked over the fire-place. Read a lot and hauled a lot of fire-wood (by feel -- couldn't even see your foot-prints outside) that week. Good-times that will never be again :(

Blizzard of '78 in New England.
Didn't see me Dad for a week, he finally hitched a ride home with the National Guard.
My mum had to toss me and me 2 brothers out the windows so we could shovel out the doors. Loved it. Nothing better than surviving nature.

The South is looking better and better.

Um,
no.

Once in a life-time storm.

Also I'm staring at the monitor. That always helps.

So you think us New Englanders are ugly?

On the contrary, the more I daze out on the warming, bluish glow of my screen, the less aware I am that I am in an infested semiswamp somewhere in the Bible Belt. Ahhh...blue...

Wouldn't that be "betterer and betterer"?

Warm days and cool evening for the next 4 months. Not all that bad.

Not much snow here the last couple of years. 98 was a good year. something like 30" that took out the entire county. Neighboring counties didn't get nearly as much snow. Power was out for three days in town. The county took 10 days to get everyone back on line. The local Power Board had to bring people and equiptment in from three neighboring states.

One would think that they would have enough sense to shut the grid down when power transformers start popping like pop corn.

The decision makers were waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

That blizzard of '98 knocked down power lines , snapping miles of telephone poles like toothpicks , high up in the mountains ,
deep in the woods.
These lines were originally put up by hand and mule power in the 20's when the trees were all gone.
The power company took one look and said they couldn't fix it ,
their trucks don't go there.
We all got together and hand carried over 100 telephone poles up wooded , snow covered mountain slopes, dug the holes , erected the poles and pulled the wires up.
Modern technology is so easily out done.

We mostly get “Ice storms” down here. All stores and business’s close, except Liquor stores.

I think they lost something like 5% of all the utility pole mounted transformers in that storm. 3000+ rings a bell. They didn't have enough on hand to replace all of them and had to get units enet in from deighboring counties and states.

A total clusterfuck. If someone had enough sense when it was obvious that the network was going down, they would have just pulled the plug. It would have saved lots of transformers. The lines would have still gone down, but the transformers wouldn't have gone.

It was erie to stand outside in the dark and watch the occasional flash in a distance and then hear the report from the transformers popping. Kind of like a scein from a war movie with artirery going off in the distance.

The ploughs were not able to clear our street for days.

So we took matters into our own hands.

A group of about a dozen kids started to shovel at one end of the street, and another group of kids began shoveling at the other end. The only break any of us took was for lunch. By dinner, we had the entire street cleared. BTW - the snow was at least 4 to 5 feet high in most spots.

Never heard of a snowblower?

Snowblowers sucked
in'78.

You said '98'.

Probably because I said '98'.

WE had a wet snow in 98. It stuck to trees and power lines and brought them down. Downed tree branches took out lots of power lines, which in turn took out transformers. Once the snow set in, the temp dropped and everything froze solid. It was an interesting time to say the least.

The snow was heavy enough to collapse the camper top on my truck. There were collapsed Steel Buildings in town as well.

Seemed like '98
but it's all a blur.

When we get snow, we look at it up on the mountains from our backyards and say, "Ain't that purty!"

If we feel particularly adventurous, we drive 40-45 minutes up Mt. Lemmon and play in the snow. We might even go skiing. Then we come home to the nice warm valley.

If we get any, it's such a rarity that the city shuts down just to look at it.

chinaski rules.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

word.

We get some snow almost every year. Typically, we get several small snow storms that deposite aroudn 4-12" of snow each.

Now considering that most people here were born here adn have dealt with it all their life, one would think they would know how to drive in snow.

But, Nooooooooooooooo...

They think you go really slow till you get to the bottom of a hill, then punch it. They have no concept of kinetic energy and momentum.

Every time the weather announcers on TV call for snow, people rush out to the grocery stores and buy them out, like we aren't going to have food for a month or something.

Typical small snow storm, 1-2" of snow.

Nice mansion you live in there, Richy Rich. Although, where you're from - it's probably a $5000 home - 'cuz no one else wants to live there.

No kidding. Snazzy digs, Gimpy.

i think that's one of the houses where he delivers papers to.


















(nice crib, spuck!)

Got a good deal on it. Needs work (that I'm suppose to be doing).

It has some Condos next door which have been set up as rent to wwn (appartments) which brought down the value.

Hopefully, I won't loose anything when I sell it in another year or two.

I don't need near this much space. We had two kids when we moved here. One moved out during her last two years of college. The second just left for USAF. So, 3+ bedroom, den, living room 2 1/2 bath and two people living here.


Yea, we really need it. However, it is well insulated, and has 1" copper water pipe as a feed, and 3/4" throught the rest of the house. Not a bad situation. $160 electric bill last monthe (August). All electric.

I'm afraid that whatever we get after this won't be as well built.