December 11, 2007
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EDIT: Here’s a pic of my front yard
ICE, ICE, BABY
What’s hard and wet, and really slippery?
Come on, get your mind out of the gutter…it’s the massive blanket of ice covering the state of Oklahoma (and most of the Midwest) The storm rolled in on Sunday and my electricity rolled out about an hour later. We haven’t had power since then and it’s colder than a witch’s tit.
My office is also without power, so I’m currently sitting in the coffee bar at my church drinking a French Vanilla Cappuccino and enjoying the WiFi (cause we’re all hip and cool like that.)
I’m also chatting with the line of people waiting to take a shower here at the church because it’s too frigin cold to take one at their houses.
There are over 200,000 people here in Tulsa without power. I lost all my trees, the lines to get gasoline are around every corner, and any restaurant that still has power has a two hour wait. They are saying it will be a week to 10 days before all of the power is restored.
What the hell did people do before electricity? I mean, for God’s sake, my DVR isn’t even recording all of the shows I’m missing. Can life get any more primitive than that?!?
Maybe… another day or two without power and one of these people standing in line for the shower might look pretty good on a spit with some barbeque sauce and a side of coleslaw.
Comments (26)
Donner party of one, your table is ready! LOL! Gee, I hope for the sake of Tulsans, your power comes back on soon!
Sorry about the power and ice. I have relatives down there without power, their phone went out, and they have trees down. Sounds like everyone in Tulsa has gotten hammered, and not in a good way! Sounds like your church is the place to be right now. In KC, the schools are out, it’s still sleeting, and icy. I haven’t heard that we are in danger of losing power, but it could surely happen. Seems too early for this!
Kathi
I’m amazed your church has a coffee bar…
That, my dear sir, is why I let my husband buy that generator. It’s big enough to run the fridge, the microwave, the TV, the furnace, and the wireless internet (provided the cable is still working). As long as we have that, we have all the creature comforts we need. And your precious ice storm is here today. It’s raining right now, but it’s not going to be pleasant later this evening.
Gutter???? I thought of a jet popcicle! That is in the freezer, not the gutter…. That is very convient that in all this global warming and all, you all have a shower at your church coffee shop.
My mind was in the gutter and I was anticipating something more exciting than a blog about an ice storm! Although, it did start to get interesting when you mentioned the showers.
It is currently 78 degrees in Savannah GA, so I would recommend hitching up the sled dogs and waiting out the storm here. A while back in Erie, PA, we had this massive ice storm right before Thanksgiving, and the city shut down for three days. Erie is very well equipped for inclement weather, it normally gets around 100 inches of snow a year, so for any sort of storm to knock out the city is unheard of. It took me an hour to get enough ice off of my car to drive it. My dad was sending me out to my uncle’s house to pick up some beer, since the stores were all closed. So you just hang out drinking your fancy, schmancy cappuccino. Just remember that in the Northeast, we know how to wait out a storm right.
They boiled water in their fireplaces and hosed off with rags or moved the water into the tub?
I don’t know how hip I am to the community shower scene, though. I think I’d rather spit-shine myself.
Isn’t it amazing that lack of technology puts us in a world of hurt? Yet people survived for centuries with a fraction of what we have. Of course less survived, which might have something to do with it. On the other hand, if they were plunked down into our world, they would never be able to survive without training.
They had skills, those folks. They could kill themselves a bear and skin it all before lunch. They sang songs together huddled in thier caves at night. They went to church and helped each other out when things were bad. Some things never change.
RYC: Ewww. Perhaps I should see if a room for you is available – at the old folks’ home!
Kathi
Oh man, oh man, where is this gonna go?! Yes, i hope you get power soon! LOL
How did they get the coffee machine working? And hurrah for wifi!
I hope your power comes back soon.
I think every church should have a coffee bar, lol. Hope the power is back on now.
Sounds like it’s time to take a long vacation out of town.
Preferably before people start breaking up the pews for kindling.
Ice, Ice Baby! It’s 75 degrees and sunny here!
http://x5d.xanga.com/98ec443344434162487998/b122449305.jpg
that’s my parents’ backyard in PA.
dude, what a pain…
thanks for stopping by and for your comment
Oh, your poor sweet trees!
Hey, I haven’t skipped church on account of morning sickness YET with this pregnancy! I’ve either been out of town or Eowyn has been sick. So there!
You may have read it on my blog, but Eowyn and I deserted the wreck that is Tulsa on Monday to stay with the grandparents in Arkansas. Our power still isn’t on and supposedly they will be working on our street tomorrow but since we are northSIDE I laugh when I hear that. And there’s another storm blowing in tomorrow night!
I feel so sad for the trees – Joel tried to say they were attacking us, but I feel like they are the true victims. They did all they could but just did not have the strength to withstand such torment.
I may still be in Arkansas on Sunday. You can blame my absence on un-pregnancy related weenie-ness. (-:
I hope your power comes back on soon! My family is in Broken Arrow and just got theirs back today (and my mom sent me about 35 emails!) They, too, lost all their trees.
Keep warm!
Stay warm!!! Some of the crews from the North Carolina power company is headed your way to help!!!
Smiles!!!
We went through that in 2003 and I’ll tell you the answer. After 5 days of freezing, we finally found a big resort hotel who makes their own power (like a hospital does). I used to think I wanted to be a pioneer woman but going a week without electricity changed my mind on that.
Find a hospital or a really big hotel.
I’m sorry for your troubles!
Poor trees. Poor 200,000 people that don’t have power. Yeah, what DID they do back in the olden days? Where did they go to plug in their laptops?
We haven’t had anything like that in a long time here, probably never. We had an ice storm about 4 years ago, but we didn’t lose power.
The Pacific Northwest is just wet. Very wet.
Oh yeah, a few weeks ago, several rivers around here totally flooded and shut down the main freeway going from California to Canada….(just a 20 mile stretch, but still…..lol) That’s about it for our natural disasters lately.
Were you just teasing us with your return? Just kidding. I’ll let you off here, since you live in Tulsa and have likely been dealing with the after-effects of the storm. But…soon, we hope to see more of you! :-p Don’t you just love bossy readers?
Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
Kathi
So I’m assuming your power is back on. Where the hell are you?
I know your pain. I hope you all are back in power, the sooner the better. I lived through five days over Christmas with out power. We had huge snow storms that knocked over power lines and trees that year. Trees fell across my driveway so we couldnt leave. But, no matter, we ran out of gas in our snowblower and no one in town had power, so no way I could get gas. We had feet and feet of snow, cars stuck on the roads so the snow remover guys couldnt get through. We fared well because we had a good home for the area. We had heat, hot water and a gas cooktop. Sorry to ramble, but your blog brought back such memories. Happy Merry, I hope you all get through this asap. Warm thoughts and Happy New Year wishes to you and your fam.
“What the hell did people do before electricity? I mean, for God’s sake, my DVR isn’t even recording all of the shows I’m missing. Can life get any more primitive than that?!?”
ROTFLMAO! I work as a tech at the call center for Cox Communications and that statement reminded me of the last couple weeks! The most common “question” we got due to the outage, “Well what am I suppose to do with my kids!?!?” The list of answers we’d love to give them is much longer than what we can tell them!