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post #1 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:40pm
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A lot of you are probably thinking I'm ignoring PM's and emails when in fact I've been without power for 10 days! Here in Dayton we had a wind storm thanks to Hurricane Ike (winds over 70 mph).

Living without power for 10 days has been an experience!

Anyhow, I'll be catching up with everything in the next couple of days.
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post #2 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:43pm
Welcome back! And glad to see you are doing Ok.

First order of business should be NoDiggity.
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post #3 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
Welcome back! And glad to see you are doing Ok.

First order of business should be NoDiggity.
Seconded.

In the meantime a lot of stuff happened. Not really.
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post #4 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:52pm
We've missed you Eileen, and I hope the power outage was the only damage from the storm you had to face.
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post #5 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:55pm
Welcome back.
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post #6 of 22
9/24/08 at 6:57pm
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We've missed you Eileen, and I hope the power outage was the only damage from the storm you had to face.
Ditto.

Living in Orlando, I've seen some storms, but fortunately missed most of the inconveniences. As my mother would say "I thought you were in a ditch somewhere..."
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post #7 of 22
9/24/08 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by Eileen View Post
A lot of you are probably thinking I'm ignoring PM's and emails when in fact I've been without power for 10 days! Here in Dayton we had a wind storm thanks to Hurricane Ike (winds over 70 mph).

Living without power for 10 days has been an experience!

Anyhow, I'll be catching up with everything in the next couple of days.
Oooooooooh 70 mph winds. We eat those for breakfast here on the Gulf Coast. Just kidding Eileen, I just got my power back today from Ike as well. Of course I'm going home and turning on EVERYTHING.
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post #8 of 22
9/24/08 at 7:10pm
Ten days without power sounds brutal. What creature-comfort did you miss most? I'd guess hot water.
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post #9 of 22
9/24/08 at 7:23pm
Welcome back, Eileen. We missed you.
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post #10 of 22
9/24/08 at 7:35pm
I see this thread, and I think C+C Music Factory.
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post #11 of 22
9/24/08 at 8:25pm
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I see this thread, and I think C+C Music Factory.
I think you mean Snap.
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post #12 of 22
9/24/08 at 8:31pm
Welcome back, Eileen.

Ten days is inexcusable. Besides the hurricane, who's the culprit? Duke Energy?
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post #13 of 22
9/24/08 at 9:08pm
Oh man ten freakin days! I once had no power for three. Took some of the coldest showers of my life. Not to mention I watched Blades of Glory to escape boredom. BLADES OF FREAKIN GLORY!
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post #14 of 22
9/24/08 at 10:10pm
Wow. We lost our power for 3 days, and some other people we know were out for about 6 days, but I thought every was back up and running by day 7 or 8. Sorry to hear you were one of the last ones.
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post #15 of 22
9/24/08 at 11:30pm
They said that everyone would be up by this past Sunday. Sorry to hear that, Eileen.

We had about five different groups of people (including one from Penn Power) come and assess the damage done to our power lines within the first three days of our power outage.
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post #16 of 22
9/25/08 at 12:35am
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Thanks for the welcome back.

re: What I did for water - We still had running water and the water heater stayed on which WAS a major plus. I felt sorry for those who had water pumps that ran on electricity.

re: What comfort did I miss most? The coffee pot

re: Who's the culprit? Dayton Power & Light. If anything this situation exposed some things about our electric company. Outdated equipment, supervisors lack of leadership, etc. To say the least they have a lot to answer for and as of tonight there are still almost 10,000 in my area without power! It took an electric company from Illinois to get our power back on! Those men have their shit together as they came in, assessed the damange and got down to business.
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post #17 of 22
9/25/08 at 12:43am
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post #18 of 22
9/25/08 at 12:44am
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Oh man ten freakin days! I once had no power for three. Took some of the coldest showers of my life. Not to mention I watched Blades of Glory to escape boredom. BLADES OF FREAKIN GLORY!
wait, in the theaters? or did the dvd come with a free generator?
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post #19 of 22
9/25/08 at 10:56am
Glad you're back up, Eileen. I'm in Deer Park, but I was lucky enough to have my power back Monday evening after the hurricane, so there wasn't much suffering on that front. However, I did have some damage to my house. That's probably the last hurricane I bother to stick around for.
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post #20 of 22
9/25/08 at 8:10pm
After 10 days with no power I missed probably the AC at night time. I've got to where I damn near can't sleep unless my bedroom is 3 degrees hotter than the arctic. We had gas for heating water for baths, and I knew I could OV guide any TV shows I missed. So yeah, the AC.
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post #21 of 22
9/29/08 at 11:48am
We were without power for 5 days after the storm. My office also didn't have power so I got a free week of paid vacation. Would've been more enjoyable if I could have used that time to watch loads of flicks. Oh well.

Sadly the most interesting part of that week was vomiting because my wife lit 3 different scented candles.
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post #22 of 22
9/29/08 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by BankytheHack View Post
Sadly the most interesting part of that week was vomiting because my wife lit 3 different scented candles.
That was lesson #1 in stocking up on candles for future emergencies. Never, ever light 3 to 4 candles that have different scents.
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