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- Subject: Re: SUN - finally!
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:44:02 EST
Auralie, What an ordeal! Sounds like you have been very smart with planning but nothing beats good neighbors. Kathy In a message dated 3/1/2010 4:07:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, Aplfgcnys@aol.com writes: Well, we had wet snow and mid-30s on Thursday, and just as we were getting ready for bed at around 10:00 PM a maple tree in the front of the house fell across the power lines taking down electric, cable, and telephone ( we maintain a land line in case of power failures, though we have a telephone on both AT&T and cable). By the next morning, the snow was pretty much over at around 16 inches, and the temperatures were still moderate, but because of the power lines down across our driveway we could not let the plow come through. To make a very long story short, we finally got our power back about two hours ago, and the cable was restored shortly after - AT&T has not showed up yet, and the drive is still blocked with snow, but at least we are pretty much back to normal and should be able to get out by tomorrow. Thanks to wonderful neighbors, we managed not to have such a bad time. I was able to warm the house on Friday morning with a good fire in our Heatolator fireplace. Then by noon a neighbor had helped Chet start the small generator that gives us heat, water, refrigeration, but no lights. Another neighbor showed up with cans of gas and kept us in fuel for several hours each day. Between that and the fireplace we stayed cosy warm - it never did get lower than the high 20s anyway. I had shopped carefully on Wednesday with the possibility of a snow storm in mind, so we had enough food. My kitchen has a gas stovetop and electric ovens, with just this sort of situation in mind, so I was able to cook, even if not to bake. All in all we made out pretty well, but I was about to go stir-crazy with no access to the computer and several big jobs pending. What has really been strange about this storm is that the temperatures have never been low. It's been in the mid 40s today. BUT when we are able to get out, what a mess! Nearly every tree on the property has broken branches. Four dogwoods have serious breaks. The crabapple outside the kitchen has three large branches broken. The Scholar Tree has several limbs down. There are at least four large branches down from the White Pines by the pond. The Mountain Laurel in front of the house has lost a major stem. On and on. Every time I look out the window I see something else broken. But at least we now have power. And we are so thankful for good neighbors. I kept thinking how much worse things could have been, and, I'm sure, were for others. Auralie In a message dated 2/28/2010 10:45:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, bkelson@ix.netcom.com writes: We have not seen much of the sun in the last few days. Light clouds though so the snow is melting from the 4 inches we had on Thursday. I was out marking the community garden plots in the snow on that day. Betsy evergreen co snowing as we speak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com> To: <gardenchat@hort.net> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [CHAT] SUN - finally! > On Feb 27, Pam Evans wrote: > > Finally a nice sunny day. I can hardly remember the last one. Even got > > some weeding & mulching done until my back said it was time to quit. The > > birds & I are just loving this! > > It wasn't too sunny here, but the snow was melting (weeding & mulching?!? > I'm jealous!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
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