The New Project: Part Deux!

[njsteve]

Still no power...11 days and no end in sight. Doesnt look like I will be attending MCACN next week.

[Xplantdad]

That sucks Steve. I heard that NY fired their director of emergency services...seems he had the folks cleaning up his house first? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That sucks Steve. I heard that NY fired their director of emergency services...seems he had the folks cleaning up his house first? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img] </div></div>

We still do not have any power, cable or internet in our town. And no realistic restoration date from the idiots at JCPL. It was so nice to see a crew of three trucks working on the lines going to some vacant million dollar vacation farm/home on our road earlier this week. The estate is unoccupied and up for sale, so it must have REALLY been critical that the millionaire politician/developer had his lines fixed before any crews worked on the actual power lines that were down 300 yards up the road. The trucks had to actually drive over those downed lines to get to his property. When we asked why the werent working on the actual downed lines, the crew from Ohio said that until they get a workorder from JCPL, they cant move on to the next repair job. So they have to sit idle waiting on the paperwork logjam to move.

My son's school just got power this morning after being closed for two weeks. My daughter happily returned to school a couple days ago just to get some heat and social interaction.

[njsteve]

We finally got power back last night. It then it went out again. It came back on an hour later. We'll see how long it lasts now.

I wont be able to atend the MCACN next week. Just too crazy around here still. I figured out that we spent $600 on fuel to run the generator for 12 days. That was just about my diesel fuel budget for last years trip to MCACN.

Last night while everyone's power was still out, the league decided to have the semi final bowl game for my son's Jr Peewee football league. Despite the fact that everyone was exhausted (parents) from no power for a week and a half, and the kids had all been sitting idle with no school during that time, and the location was 30 miles away (but a 90 minute drive due to closed roads), it was a great game. It was tied 12-12 til the last five minutes when my son's team scored another 6. The game ended at 18-12.

We were all elated...until they told us that the kids now have another semi final in 4 days...on a Monday night. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Here are those photos I referred to earlier. These were taken in 1993 by a Pontiac fan up in British Columbia who saw the car in a parking lot, ran the VIN through PHS and met the owner.

[njsteve]

And here are the photos he took of the car as it sat in storage from 1995 to 2004, when the motor finally got put back together, shortly before the owner passed away.

He knows the owner of the shop who did the work and will be contacting him in the near future to get some more details on the engine rebuild.

[njsteve]

Bigger version of middle photo: