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Date: July 01, 2012 at 22:49:08
From: Stardanya, [DNS_Address]
Subject: A messg in Maryland |
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the power companies have their hands full and I don't understand why officials are angry at them. They only had 10 hours to prepare for the onslaught of a "land hurricane."
Took our generator down to my sister in Laurel. Electric poles snapped like twigs, large trees down, limbs all over, blocks upon blocks of closed shops due to no electricity. My nephew was telling us about the anger flare ups at gas stations that were open. At the McDonalds up the street that did have power, the building was wrapped by cars which then went down the street because of people without power.
A nice note was my nephew's friend told us about his mom who had a catering job on Sat. She went to shop but found no electric. However, her partner had it at his house so he prepared the food for the event there. She called the people she was to serve and they said where they were holding event had no power so event postponed. What to do with food for 300? The man who cooked it, went to people in his neighborhood that had no power and opened his house for them to partake of the bounty, for free.
We got lucky. Electric stayed on and the grandfather Maple next door held fast with its roots.
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Date: July 13, 2012 at 05:35:41
From: Judy/W, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: A messg in Maryland |
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Stardanya, It was called a "derecho", and not one of our Ohio weathermen were telling us this. They termed it Straight line winds.
A columnist in our local paper reported on it, and said this is highly unusual for our area. Usually the mountains cause it to dissapate.
Southern Ohio really got the brunt of this "hurricane", and West Virginia got it full force. Many in our Ohio River area are still cleaning up. my thoughts Judy
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Date: July 03, 2012 at 15:23:29
From: Polly,AZ, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: A messg in Maryland |
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Bless him for feeding 300 people who were without. You are right that most people won't prepare for anything, many feeling the Gov. will come to their rescue. Most think of Y2K and laugh, never thinking that high winds and rain can do worse. I got sick watching the news at the number of grocery stores and restaurants who just emptied their freezers and threw the food out. Why didn't they drive around in trucks offering it to people? Wasteful and hurtful
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Date: July 03, 2012 at 08:27:52
From: Leslie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: A message in Maryland |
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If anything, this should drive home the need to prepare for the worst of anything that may hit. Sure refrigerated foods will spoil but, with proper equipment, lots of food could be made before it spoiled and used to feed those who are without.
There are lots of RV's around and they have refrigerators that run off propane and work very well.
A thought we have passed around here in ranching country is to look for RV refrigerators as they run off AC, propane and some 12VDC which solar panels can supply. Yes I understand power issues as an engineer but, in these situations those things are worth it.
Bottom line is there are a lot of folks not prepared, the large majority of the population, and they are mad at the suppliers of services who could not prepare for this no matter how hard they would try. The destruction is too wide spread.
Now take this to a major grid outage across a larger region or the country and think what you would do.
Lets share more thoughts at TEOTWAWKI.
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Date: July 03, 2012 at 10:40:40
From: martin Van Isle BC, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: A message in Maryland |
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A good practice run, and reminder for the New Madrid
fault rupture if it were to happen sometime soon. A lot
of people will realize that preparation means
everything and it is too late after disaster hits. It
does not matter where you live there is always a
possibility that we will have to survive dark ages
style and having prepared for such an occasion will
make life a lot easier and for some scenarios,
survivable. Esp those dependent on life supporting
medications. Many doctors will allow an extra supply as
long as it isn't a narcotic.
Here on Vancouver Island we had rain 17 days in July
and pretty much no significant sunny stretches. It was
nice but I,m ready for some SUMMER!!!
No mosquitoes yet to speak of which has been a
blessing.
Take care and stay cool..
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Date: July 03, 2012 at 10:41:51
From: martin, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: A message in Maryland |
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Typo-(meant 17 days in June)
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