January 08, 2005
Powerless and Frigid in Ohio
Not to be confused with Sleepless in Seattle or Dazed and Confused.
The last three days have been horrendous. We have had no electricity nor heat owing to a massive ice storm that struck downing nearly all of the trees, not only in our own yard, but throughout the whole area. The town had no power, several cities nearby had no power, and the counties shut down all traffic for two days (level 3 winter emergency, you get arrested if you are out on the roadways).
All the first night, as it rained and froze, you could hear the trees creaking and splitting, then the thunderous booms as the limbs fell to the ground and hit the earth. I was forced to run underneeth the bed many times and hide between the boxes because the crashes were so frequent and scary.
The slaves all slept downstairs and boxed off the room with blankets to retain heat from a small propane heater. Even I deigned to sleep in there, because the rest of the house was absolutely freezing. There was little light save what came from candles and these light wand things called flashlights. At least the water still worked.
When everyone got up the first day, we discovered what you see in the images below. The only thing that was different from the pictures was that the tree actually fell on the human slave's vehicle. He was quite irritated about that fact, yet when he went out the other day and cleaned off all the ice, it seems that there was little to no damage owing to the fact that the ice that covered the car (two inches) was so thick that the tree did no damage to it when it hit. Profoundly intriguing if you ask me.
At least the power is back on, I can sleep upstairs again and be warm. The humans are busy attempting to break up limbs and carry them to the front... BUT it snowed over night last night and now there are three inches of snow over everything. This is highly amusing.
Posted by Sierra at January 8, 2005 05:59 PMPosted to Furballs