I’ll take an ice storm

Sounds like both Organic Mama and Mrs. Chili have power again after getting smashed by the ice storm up that way.  Welcome back, both!

We got prepared for such an eventuality when Lea was pregnant with Nathan—but the only times I’ve gotten to use our generators so far is during their quarterly test runs.  I even have an inverter-equipped one to run the ‘puters.  With that, and with the gas fireplace for heat, we’re ready.

Maybe this is the year.  What we need is an all-night icing to grind the city to a halt, followed by a day and a night of steady snow.  We’ve damned sure got the water—we’re already over 8″ of rain for the month of December at my house—but the cold, so far, has not cooperated.  Come wallop us, winter!

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8 thoughts on “I’ll take an ice storm”

  1. It’s good to BE back!

    We’re seriously considering getting a generator when the craze for them dies down. I’ve got to get a call in to our favorite electrician to come and wire the house so that we can run the important stuff from a central location; as it was, Mr. Chili direct-connected to the furnace (gas, which was great, but the circulator pumps are electric). We KNOW something like this is going to happen again (“thank you, Global Warming,” she says with rue in her voice) and we’d like to be able to survive it with some semblance of intact-ness. Burst water pipes are NO ONE’S idea of a good time. Having a system in place, I don’t have to tell you, would reduce the stress associated with these kinds of events, too, and I think it’s the stress more than anything that gets to us.

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  2. No! I do not wish for an ice storm. It’s not so much that I do not wish to be cooped up at home. No. I just don’t want to have to pay for all of the repairs that become necessary when the power lines go down. Equipment, overtime – that costs money, and we tax payers pay it. Bah. Can’t we just have a nice pretty snowfall that just shuts down some roadways without knocking all of the trees over?

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  3. Be careful what you ask for, Bo. We have ice storms here in the upstate of SC more often than snow, and losing your power for days is not an adventure. It’s a royal pain in the ass! No TV and internet I can live with but no lights or hot water is pure agony after 48 hours. Keeping the fireplace going and cooking over a camp stove is super fun… so is throwing out everything in the fridge.

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  4. Alabama winter = 33 F and rain. The drought over the last few years made me forget how much I hate that. Give me snow/ice or give me sunshine!

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  5. Alabama winters sound remarkably like South Carolina winters. Here’s my old fart comment, though: When I was a kid we would get at least 2 pretty snows a year. Now we’re just lucky if it rains.

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  6. Thank you, BO
    But silly Boy, don’t taunt the weather gods – they can get mean!
    So good to be back and warm and internetted, but school has not resumed for my kids as tree limbs and other storm debris AND 6 inches of snow on top of that has impeded total resumption of “normal.” We’ll also be getting a generator so we can run our pellet stove and some lights, maybe the fridge – however there is no generator to be had anywhere around here for the moment. Soon. though, so we’re prepared for the next time. Sigh.

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  7. You guys who have been through it are probably right, I know. It’s just that we have the equipment and I’ve rehearsed the deployment, and dammit… 😉

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