[GeoStL] Re: Out of the Office
- From: "tklnhl & kyd" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:41:06 -0500
-
Thursday was for sure the worse. Wednesday night our basement was
borderline arctic. Thursday it was NOT. Especially since SOMEONE (someone
being the kyd) refused to sleep on the floor because of some kind of bug she
saw somewhere at some time that day on the floor.
I gave up, headed up stairs and made a couple of icepacks and slept in
front of an open windows. Then our power went on for a few hours, just
enough to cool down the upstairs and give me a semi confident feeling of
security. In other words I was left with a half washed load of dirty dishes
AND clothes. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
We were going to head to my mom and dad's but the Kyd wanted to hang
around and play with friends on Friday and Saturday. We did go to a
friend's house to do a bit of laundry and sit in a hot tub for a while.
Plus, she baked us cookies. Although it took us three convenience stores in
Edwardsville to find milk,
The shopping center at New Halls Ferry and 20 never lost power and we were
heading to Steak and Shake when we saw people coming out of Shop and Save
with ICE!! WE just had sandwiches that night and enjoyed our ICE lol.
A friend just got power and offered us his brand new generator. If there's
no action by tomorrow then we're taking it. I can't pay another $26.00 for
C batteries for my must have radio.
I don't think I can live without my Internet friends. Definite withdrawal
in that department. Fingers getting all twitchy, keep wanting to say "LOL"
at the end of my sentences. It's ugly.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:18 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Out of the Office
> -
> Nancy,
>
> We're about in the same boat as you are/were except we got our power back
> tonight. But we went the whole time, no quick "fixed" during the outage.
> We
> lost everything in the refrig and freezer but it looks nice having a clean
> and uncluttered icebox again. No actual damage outside except it looked
> like
> fall with all the leaves but they were all green.
>
> And no internet the whole time and that was actually pretty nice. I CAN
> survive without knowing what's going on in the wired world but I did miss
> the news on TV. Had to use the car for the car radio.
>
> Thur. was the worse for sleeping. My wife stayed at her sisters and I
> slept
> on the back porch. It was 91 at 11PM when I went to bed on the chaise
> lounge
> and hosed it down and let the water soak into the padding which felt
> pretty
> good. At 3:30 it was 83 outside so I thought I'd go to bed inside. It was
> 89
> in there and when I woke up at 6:30 it was DOWN to 88. I didn't use the
> A/C
> in the car so I wouldn't get so use to the cool air.
>
> I just heard tonight it might be till Thursday before some in No. county
> get
> their power back.
>
> It wasn't fun but at least we had gas, water (and plenty of showers), and
> phones and able to get around to large stores and places to cool off.
>
> Rich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tklnhl & kyd" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:58 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Out of the Office
>
>
>> -
>> Camping -- that's what we've been doing from last Wednesday through ....
>> NOW except in our house with our own beds. ..
>>
>> Entering DAY FIVE of the Great St. Louis Black Out. We've passed the full
>> 4
>> day mark. Well. unless you count those two teaser times when the power
>> came on long enough to suck us into thinking we were in the all clear.
>>
>> Everyone around us seems to have power. We actually had trucks on our
>> street. We all ran out screaming, "don't let them get away; Don't let
>> them
>> get away!"
>>
>> Still checking email and getting our technology fix via the power
>> inverter
>> that is now plugged into the Jeep -- that can be jump started by rolling
>> it
>> out the driveway; my Sable can not.
>>
>> We've decided that if this is any indication of what it will be like in
>> case
>> of a "real" emergency or attack then we're all in BIG trouble . As my
>> husband said, "Just please God, take me on the first strike." Personally
>> I
>> like the interviews with the Ameren people that can be summed up in the
>> following way, "You'll get your power on when you get your power on ..
>> and
>> be damned thankful." sigh
>>
>> Our good news is that we only hand one medium sizish limb hit the roof on
>> the way down and that my slug self hasn't been grocery shopping in a over
>> a
>> week. We've lost nothing from our fridge and the dry ice place isn't too
>> far
>> from here. We're very much more lucky than many others in our neighbor
>> hood.
>> Except for not being able to find a D battery anywhere! LOL
>>
>> It's one big adventure!!
>>
>> Certainly hope everyone else is faring as well as we.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Glenn" <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:29 PM
>> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Out of the Office
>>
>>
>>> -
>>> I'm back and have lots of catching up to do. Boy am I sore. I think I am
>>> getting too old for this camping stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>> Glenn wrote:
>>>> -
>>>> I am going to be out of the Geo-Office for the weekend starting in just
>>>> a few minutes. If any one has caching stuff. I will look at it on
>>>> Sunday
>>>> afternoon,
>>>> than ks,
>>>>
>>>> Glenn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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