[tcb] Re: Homeless in Siberia
- From: Eskimeaux <cajun-eskimo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Texas Coalition of busses <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:19:48 -0600
Sounds like a good book, stay strong. Good job of keeping the good Karma.
Eskimo> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:42:53 -0500> From: coocoo@xxxxxxx> To:
tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] Homeless in Siberia> > I am almost dead. I am
sitting in a coffee shop using their Wi-Fi, one of the few places that are open
and have internet. The entire city of Springdale is dark. There is in inch of
ice on everything. The ice crystals are growing UP from the grass. I have never
seen that.> > The power went off three days ago, but using Gerald's big orange
battery I could still get internet. We refugeed to Brad and Claudette's in
Rogers, where only half the town was dark. but they had no Net. Then they lost
power and my house now has no internet.> > We had to crash the Element through
the hanging ice from the bent over trees. And then we lost traction going up
the road to Nob Hill and it slid sideways into a ditch. We abandoned it and I
walked back for the truck, but by then two or three trees and fallen and
blocked our driveway, so I had to just plow through the woods, knocking down
small trees.> > Then it got worse.> > Driving from Brad's, 12 miles or so,
fighting my way down the road, machete, bow saw and small chainsaw, fed the
dogs, checked on everything, going to the only grocery store open, stopping at
the liquor store (it's not really open, just the drive-thru window. They have a
laptop, take cash and go find what you want with flashlights) then arrive back
at Brad's was 7 hours.> > Yesterday we went with a big chainsaw and it took
about two hours to cut our way to the house. More trees keep falling.> > The
neighbors, who are old and weak anyway, were suffering quietly when I went and
checked on them. She chain smokes and had been out of cigs for two days and
they had no toilet paper. I gave them by cell phone because their phone was
dead. They had never worked one. When we were on our way back there I called to
ask what they might need and she asked for two cups of coffee. Their stove is
elect rick, so they hadn't had anything hot for two days. I gave them a cook
top and a propane bottle. They still couldn't make coffee, cuz Mr Coffee won't
work, so I went home and brought them a drip setup.> > We got the Element out
of the ditch.> > I have borrowed a small generator from a guy who went and
bought a bigger one after he found that he couldn't fun his furnace, freezer,
fridge, plasma TV and his Mr Coffee with the little one. I supposedly will be
able to plug this into my furnace and my projector TV.> > Well, I have delayed
it about as long as I can. At least I need to feed the dogs.>
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