in the dark again rant....

krazydiamond Global Moderator Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far. Member since June 2004 Posts: 9,636	in the dark again rant.... Sept 29, 2005 19:07:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by krazydiamond on Sept 29, 2005 19:07:39 GMT -5 we've been out of power for about 14 hours now, bad storm. i may be out of contact for a few days, but don't worry! KD
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docone31 still telling self it's just a hobby Member since June 2003 Posts: 4,476	in the dark again rant.... Sept 29, 2005 21:29:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by docone31 on Sept 29, 2005 21:29:18 GMT -5 Reminds all of us, how, in our quest for freedom, how bound we are to a central source. How is this force being used? What did we gain, acquiring our freedoms, and what did we give up attaining freedom
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in the dark again rant.... Sept 29, 2005 23:38:47 GMT -5

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Post by rockds on Sept 29, 2005 23:38:47 GMT -5

We took a pounding yesterday evening, bad thunder and storms with wind at 60-70 mph. Took some limbs of our river birch and one from one of our crap mertal but other than that we survived. One of my dogs pissed on the floor, he doesn't like thunder. Hope u make it thru okay KD w/o sacrificing too many of ur freedoms.

robert

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joe still telling self it's just a hobby Member since June 2005 Posts: 4,900	in the dark again rant.... Sept 29, 2005 23:48:25 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by joe on Sept 29, 2005 23:48:25 GMT -5 Hope your power is back soon KD. I hate to think of tumblers NOT running! Rockds, I hope you got your floor cleaned up!! Joe
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rockyraccoon no longer being taken for granite Member since December 2003 Posts: 7,980	in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 2:54:50 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockyraccoon on Sept 30, 2005 2:54:50 GMT -5 kd bless your heart. this is twice now recently that you've been without electricity. rockds i saw on the weather channel that y'all had some bad stuff. is it gone? kim

Cher In Memoriam Tumbling is addictive - Resistance is futile - You will be assimilated Member since August 2004 Posts: 14,072	in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 8:27:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cher on Sept 30, 2005 8:27:49 GMT -5 Sure hope you have it back now, that stinks when it goes for so long. Hope no one was damaged by the storms.
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krazydiamond Global Moderator Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far. Member since June 2004 Posts: 9,636	in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 12:37:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by krazydiamond on Sept 30, 2005 12:37:52 GMT -5 it was a long SILENT 33 hours of not tumbling, but thankfully, we are back rolling again!!! not to mention, we can stop hauling buckets of water from the creek to flush! yee haw! thanks everyone! KD
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in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 13:11:33 GMT -5

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Post by LCARS on Sept 30, 2005 13:11:33 GMT -5

We got our first real good rain storm over the last 24 on Van. Island. We only lost power for 2/3 of a second during the whole episode. We were lucky this time since we are on the butt end of a sketchy grid. I may have to shelve my rock hounding habbits in favor of my mushroom forraging habbits for the rest of the season.
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in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 13:29:56 GMT -5

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Post by stefan on Sept 30, 2005 13:29:56 GMT -5

Yeah KD I was gonna warn you that storm was a coming- But the power flickers (never really lost it completly) played hell with the phones at work and I spent the morning trying to get us back up and running- We had some pretty hefty winds (the news said we had a few 65 MPH gusts) and we lost our glass topped picnic table at home (hell the thing was 10 years old and had survived having over 6 feet of snow on it- but the wind tossed it to the patio blocks and she just shattered).

I can't tell if thats some Gneiss Schist, or that Schist is Gneiss. All I know is don't take it for Granite

Cher In Memoriam Tumbling is addictive - Resistance is futile - You will be assimilated Member since August 2004 Posts: 14,072	in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 16:15:11 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cher on Sept 30, 2005 16:15:11 GMT -5 I'm sorry Stefan, that sucks! KD sorry you had to endure that, glad it's all fixed now. Let's hope that's not a preview of winter storms.
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in the dark again rant.... Sept 30, 2005 17:26:37 GMT -5

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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 30, 2005 17:26:37 GMT -5

i guess i feel kinda wimpy complaining after the really horrific stories of the hurricane tragedies...but you really don'r know how much you rely on electricity until you don't have it for any length of time. i can't imagine how those poor folks in the Gulf dealt with not just the lack of electric but of All Things Civilised.

it got chilly in here last night (55 degrees F) but i had a clean bed and blankets, candles and roof over my head. and i was able to drive into town to get a bag of ice for the fridge and a cup of coffee.

it still didn't make me any less grateful to see the Men In Trucks come and fix my sense of normalcy.

(don't it always, seem to go
that you don't know what yougot til it's gone?

pave paradise and put up a parking lot...)

KD

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