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Well Fed Games:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 01, 2012, 01:16:18 pm ---
That sucks Shmokes.  Sorry to hear that your car got damaged.  I hope your power comes back on soon. 


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+1, that is waaaay too hot for no fans or A/C.

shmokes:
Thanks for the sentiments. It's definitely way too hot. But not, like, dangerously so or anything. So I'm fine. And my wife and daughter totally skipped it. They left Tuesday to Idaho to visit parents/grandparents and don't come back for a couple more days. So I can't really complain. It's just a bit warm. And my god, you should have seen that storm . . . 

Still . . . some cool weather would not be unwelcome. Repairs have still not even begun where I live. A huge tree down in the road, requiring cars to drive up on a lawn to get around it, is still there. Power lines are still laying in the road where they were the night of the storm. There's just too much damage in the city to address everything. 

daywane:
My wife and I slept through the whole thing.
we took a night time pill each at 7:30 pm and awoke at 4:00 am and missed the whole thing.
snoooooooor.!

Howard_Casto:
Pretty much all of WV and half of VA and OH were hit pretty bad.  We didn't have any real damage to our property BUT we just now got power.  We've been without it for 5 days, in 90+ degree heat.  Some of the state won't even have any until sunday or later. 

Our area had more downed trees and snapped power poles than you can count.  Thankfully not a whole lot of damage to actual homes or anything.  I was beginning to give up hope in regards to getting any power until Sunday, because we hadn't even seen a power truck until this morning.... they just hadn't shown up yet.  To my amazment they had our power on by 6:30 this evening!  So they fixed 15 downed poles, two broken transformers, a downed transmission line that had to be reached by helicopter, and more downed lines than you can count in under a day. Cable and telephone too! Those guys are ---fracking--- rock stars. 

And just to give people a sense of scope in regards to the damage, our little town, with the damage mentioned above, was considered "minimal". 

daywane:
That kind of damage happend 2 winters ago here.
power crews were from all states here. The crew in my back yard was from 2 states away.

I wish I was there with all my set up for logging. look at all the down trees ready to season for lumber and fire wood.

I have allways gotten way to up set with the news when the news person can stare into the camera and say how much per mile it would be to put the cables under ground!
JUST PLAIN BULL  :censored:
Maybe some what close if only say cable television only but we have electrick and phone to go in the ground also.
so the cost is split up 3 ways. 1st eclectic goes above sewer ,the water, & the gas, then electrick, then, Phone line then cable, cable being 3 feet deep.

I did this line of work for years. there is very little above ground stuff in AZ.

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