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I've been without power since Thursday, and it's no longer amusing. At first, I thought it was like a fun camping trip in the living room. We light a few candles. Maybe we drink some peppermint schnaaps and hot chocolate. But, those "it's fun to live in the dark like old timey people" days are over.
Now it's just ridonculous.
[I know that there's people in the world that are worse off than me and all that - but it's my own little personal struggle at the moment and I thought I'd share.]
The old mill I live in is dark and scary. And, it's actualy colder inside than it is ouside right now. Over the past few days there hasn't been any "harrowing moments of life and death" or a "fight to stay alive," but there was one moment kinda-sorta like that.
I needed to get some fresh batteries in the flashlights and some to power the CD boom box (so I could have a little glowstick rave in the dark). But, there weren't any to be found, and all the nearby stores were shut down. I was in a real pickle. And then I remembered that I bought a ton of batteries for the robot humps video, so I went into LLR headquarters and salvaged them.
It was sorta like that moment in the movie Alive, when the crash survivors were all, "Oh no! What are we gonna eat?" and then one of them looked over at the corpses nearby and went, "Hey! I know where there's some meat!"
It was just like that, but with toy robots and batteries (and without the icy corpses).
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Yeah, same winter 'ice storm' here now too. I do think however, that ridon-cu-lous should be spelled with a 'k'
Ridonkulous.
Yeah, even those of us that like to re-enact older historical periods like our heat, lights and indoor plumbing. Spolied I guess *G*.. Hope they get you turned on soon!
That's crazy. Three years ago, we battled a similar ice storm here in Central Kentucky. Many folks went without electricity for more than a week. Hang in there, Robot.
Hope you get some heat soon, dude.
My folks in Hendersonville, NC which is just over the state line from you got hit with ice as well. Charlotte didn't get much but some other towns in our DMA did. I have chased a power crew up the street at least once this week for video.
Jeez, that'll teach me not to check in with you for a few days. I'm sending you thoughts of heat and working electricity.
I have to do it... "In my day sonny we had to shovel coal into our CD players, which we had to walk five miles to get, in the snow, barefoot, uphill - both ways! and we had to dig it out of the hill ourselves, using only a teaspoon, and ..." You get the idea. But seriously, just take care.. make sure you're not one of the "lighting-a-fire-indoors-to-keep-warm" fatalities we always hear about.
I feel for ya 'bot - as no power sucks. I didn't know how bad until an ice storm hit the Piemont a few years back. The day after it hit, I was doing the normal photog run-around (live truck, salt truck, power crew chase...) when I stopped by ny house to check on the family.
What did I find but my wife, who was...a little manic that week, wrapped in several layers of clothing and hanging blankets over doorways. The good woman was absolutely livid that I left the house to go work without first rounding up a suitable supply of those grocery store fire logs to keep the house warm.
I was guilty - my news radar had sounded early and I had left my domicile without dragging the firelog box out of the garage. But no amount of excuses could satosfy the wife, who at one point, yelled, "WHILE YOU'RE OUT THERE PLAYING NEWS-MAN, YOUR CHILDREN ARE FREEZING AT HOME!"
As she yelled this, I looked through the kitchen window to see my two lovely girls out with the neighbior kids, sliding down an icy hill on trashcan lids among shouts of unabashed glee. Knowing that logic wouldn't apply to my wife's misplaced wrath, I dropped the box of firelogs at her feet, spun on my hills and drove to my live truck outpost.
To make myself feel better, I smoked half a pack of cigarettes and promptly lost my cell-phone. Three days later the power came back on, and my wife returned to a more rational state of mind.
I love that woman. But I hate icestorms.
Hello LLR -- We travelled down to G'ville from Seattle to visit Mom, who was also out of power and ended up with a couple of nights in Atlanta until it was safe to return to SC. Had a good time exploring your area here and driving around in the chaos. Funny how all the "haves" in Cleveland Park not only had power, but all the limbs, twigs, leaves and other debris were off the landscaping. Hmmm.... We feel your cold pain and hope you can return life to your robots soon.
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