Re: Snow and Ice.....
Same boat as Randy...electricity clicked off @ noon on Tuesday, and came back this afternoon...and we're the lucky ones...most folks from here & to the south the co-op is *hoping* to have electricity by March. Dad met an 18 wheeler over in Poplar Bluff with a load of FEMA water, as we were one of the few folks who could get a truck & trailer out...still took us a few hours of cutting limbs, plowing snow/ice, and ended up having to drag the truck/trailer with our track loader (4wd tractor wouldn't budge it!)...quite the ordeal. Looks like a scene out of a movie around here, like a huge A-bomb went off...not a top left in a tree from here south, and dead men (limbs) hanging in every tree. Knocked out all but 1 radio in our range for a few days, so we've been a bit isolated...our Alton office has power, but Thayer & Mammoth Spring locations are both dark...those 2 towns are still in the dark as well, and they said this morning that since they're having to run the water system off of generators that water supply is limited so if there's a fire there will be no way to even slow it down...so now there's a burn ban and a curfew...to make matters worse, this part of the world is out of gasoline! Been a real learning experience...
Funny thing is, though, other than the water that we had to go get & haul ourselves for the southern part of the county, there's been nary a word from FEMA...and no looting or shootings...go figure...!?!
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