What an experience and a rude awakening!
A major storm hit us in Maine late Sunday night in to early Monday Morning...it was a Nor'Easter..... basically, our type of hurricane in the north east....
the wind was howling, the rain was coming down like cats and dogs and our house was staying in tact through it all which was a blessing....didn't lose one cedar shake shingle on the roof or the siding!!!
However, by around 8 am we lost our electric, Matt had left for work, about 30 miles from here....and I had no idea on how to start the generator which had not been started since last winter....
We have this doohickey thing that has about 400 watts that you can run to the house with an extension cord from the car outside that plugs in to the lighter in the car...that ran to the house so I was able to run my lap top and the modem and the satellite cable box and the tv and one florescent light....
Matt called about 4 times on his way to work, each time trying a different route to make it there, but kept being stopped by trees and torn down live power lines crossing the road.....he finally just came home! (And I was grateful he came home and made it back home safely)
Then at around 10 am the phone line went down and also our dsl internet...so I was left to running the tv only....and all heck was breaking on the news with Manafort, and Gates and Papagopolus (sp?)....
BUT NO INTERNET to go to USMB!
Gosh, that was frustrating!!!!!!
Even with the generator now running cuz Matt got it started (finally)
The next day Matt went to work and managed to make it there.....under trees being held up by just power lines that had not collapsed....
3 of the 4 gas stations on US1 not too far from here had no power or generator and were closed...the one that was opened had long lines but he managed to get a 5 gallon gas can filled and the van filled with gas which has a huge gas tank compared to the small gas saver car Matt just bought to get back and forth to work...so we could siphon gas from it if needed....
Had a big wheel barrel that was out by the garden area that had filled to the top with water from all the rain that we could get buckets of water to flush the toilets....there is a brook/river nearby so if we ran out of water to flush we could go down there and fill up containers with water....
Matt found out at work, that the electric company had said our area would have electric back by Saturday night, 10 pm....
we got it back yesterday, got our phone back on thursday but NOT the DSL for our internet....and boy oh boy oh boy, did I and Matt really miss the internet!!!!!
It was all an epic journey, only all within the realms of our home! Cooking on sterno cans, extension cords running all over the place, spit baths, generator breaking down during it all and Matt trouble shooting and repairing it.....
So glad the whole event is over with! but NOW I have to get rid of all the junk that's all over the place and try to get this home back to normal!
Nearly 5 days without electricity and internet and phone....
I just can not imagine the holy hell these people who still do not have electricity, 7 weeks after Hurricane Maria are going through in Puerto Rico!!! Dear Lord, please help them!
A major storm hit us in Maine late Sunday night in to early Monday Morning...it was a Nor'Easter..... basically, our type of hurricane in the north east....
the wind was howling, the rain was coming down like cats and dogs and our house was staying in tact through it all which was a blessing....didn't lose one cedar shake shingle on the roof or the siding!!!
However, by around 8 am we lost our electric, Matt had left for work, about 30 miles from here....and I had no idea on how to start the generator which had not been started since last winter....
We have this doohickey thing that has about 400 watts that you can run to the house with an extension cord from the car outside that plugs in to the lighter in the car...that ran to the house so I was able to run my lap top and the modem and the satellite cable box and the tv and one florescent light....
Matt called about 4 times on his way to work, each time trying a different route to make it there, but kept being stopped by trees and torn down live power lines crossing the road.....he finally just came home! (And I was grateful he came home and made it back home safely)
Then at around 10 am the phone line went down and also our dsl internet...so I was left to running the tv only....and all heck was breaking on the news with Manafort, and Gates and Papagopolus (sp?)....
BUT NO INTERNET to go to USMB!
Gosh, that was frustrating!!!!!!
Even with the generator now running cuz Matt got it started (finally)The next day Matt went to work and managed to make it there.....under trees being held up by just power lines that had not collapsed....
3 of the 4 gas stations on US1 not too far from here had no power or generator and were closed...the one that was opened had long lines but he managed to get a 5 gallon gas can filled and the van filled with gas which has a huge gas tank compared to the small gas saver car Matt just bought to get back and forth to work...so we could siphon gas from it if needed....
Had a big wheel barrel that was out by the garden area that had filled to the top with water from all the rain that we could get buckets of water to flush the toilets....there is a brook/river nearby so if we ran out of water to flush we could go down there and fill up containers with water....
Matt found out at work, that the electric company had said our area would have electric back by Saturday night, 10 pm....
we got it back yesterday, got our phone back on thursday but NOT the DSL for our internet....and boy oh boy oh boy, did I and Matt really miss the internet!!!!!
It was all an epic journey, only all within the realms of our home! Cooking on sterno cans, extension cords running all over the place, spit baths, generator breaking down during it all and Matt trouble shooting and repairing it.....
So glad the whole event is over with! but NOW I have to get rid of all the junk that's all over the place and try to get this home back to normal!
Nearly 5 days without electricity and internet and phone....
I just can not imagine the holy hell these people who still do not have electricity, 7 weeks after Hurricane Maria are going through in Puerto Rico!!! Dear Lord, please help them!
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