Hello from Iceland

[Lap3Forever]

Hey guys. I just now got cell phone service. Hope it last. Been with out power since Tuesday mor around 3am. So about to start the 4th day. This ice storm shartered the recored. Looks like a war zone. Trees down. Power lines and poles. Roads blocked. Could be over a month before I get power. They have got to redo the whole grid.

They finaly get off there ass in Frankfort and DC and call a state of emerncy. But i've yet to see a single power truck on the road from Kentucky or out of state. They gave Bush and FEMA hell with Nawlins well it's my turn. With FEMA and Obama! Where is my hot meal and 1,500$ debit card? LOL. Some of the is tounge and cheek but I'm still unhappy with officals.

We went to Paris and Camden tenn yesterday to get supplies. Just going to be a long hard road ahead.

 

[Mopardh9]

Stay safe dude, a month before power? Man that is rough, hope you guys get through ok.

 

[SlowNeasy]

dddamn, sorry to hear things are that bad there. call your local congressman and make sure he/she knows that you vote.

 

[TexasRaceLady]

Hang in there, Nick. Hope the power trucks show up soon.

 

[Digger]

dddamn, sorry to hear things are that bad there. call your local congressman and make sure he/she knows that you vote.

Relying on any government = FAIL

I can't believe people still haven't learned that after Katrina and Ike.

Nick, hang in there man.

 

[VAJen]

Hang in there, Nick. I have another internet friend in KY. She just had knee surgery. She has no power. She has intermittent phone service. She's running a heater off of a propane tank. She's almost out of propane. Her water has stopped working. I'm really worried about her.

 

[Lap3Forever]

Thanks guys and gals. Ive tried to get on here all day but just have been able to. I went in to Benton Kentucky today and seen the national guard driving around. The ice has melted off the lines and trees. So hopefully they can really start to restore power. The city of Murray had power but a tree fell on the wire and the town went dark again.

Murray 24 hours - two weeks
Mayfiled 7-10 days
Rural areas will be 50% restored in 30 days.

Gas stations are backed up. There is no shortage but everyone is trying to get it.

My power company has to replace 1,500 poles!!

I went to Paducah to take a shower but I won't be able to do that everyday. Hope the city of Murray will get power and I can go to a buddys to shower.

All the heat we have is a K-1 heater. Ive cooked pizza on it! LOL Our gas logs went out the poilt light won't stay lit. Have been able to watch tv with the geneator but that's just as long as we got gas. The geneator will not pull a heater.

Well that's all for now. I am doing this from my iPhone.

 

[Magnethead]

Thanks guys and gals. Ive tried to get on here all day but just have been able to. I went in to Benton Kentucky today and seen the national guard driving around. The ice has melted off the lines and trees. So hopefully they can really start to restore power. The city of Murray had power but a tree fell on the wire and the town went dark again.

Murray 24 hours - two weeks
Mayfiled 7-10 days
Rural areas will be 50% restored in 30 days.

Gas stations are backed up. There is no shortage but everyone is trying to get it.

My power company has to replace 1,500 poles!!

I went to Paducah to take a shower but I won't be able to do that everyday. Hope the city of Murray will get power and I can go to a buddys to shower.

All the heat we have is a K-1 heater. Ive cooked pizza on it! LOL Our gas logs went out the poilt light won't stay lit. Have been able to watch tv with the geneator but that's just as long as we got gas. The geneator will not pull a heater.

Well that's all for now. I am doing this from my iPhone.

wow. Did you have an ice storm or a tornado? 1500 poles sounds like the latter.

 

[WNY24Fan]

Unless you've experienced a really brutal ice storm, there's no way to comprehend just how dangerous and destructive they are. Our worst one in 1991 barely got any coverage on the news and I just knew that people had no idea just how bad things were here. Ours was right after the beginning of the Persian Gulf War and I remember thinking it sounded just like bombs when those trees hit the ground. I was scared to death every time one hit the ground. That's the closest I ever want to be to a "war zone."

Take care of yourself, Lappy. Keep in touch when you can and I hope you get your service back sooner than expected.

 

[Matt43]

SOoooooooooooooo, is there ice there?

Sorry I couldn't help it.

 

[Lap3Forever]

The ice melted yesterday. I have 1-3 bars or service at home. Went to Murray this moreing to get brakefast but hardees was full. Went to burger king. The CEO of the company was there drove down from st louis in his suv and small box trailler with food so they could open. Still a bunch of people with out power including me. Really not much has changed. Murray state starts back to school Monday. My school starts back wensday.

I made a yard sign that says "FEMA?" if mag can poSt the pic. It's on my Facebook.

I've been drinking a ton of juice. Cut back on comes and engery drinks. Day 2 and 3 I was on a coffie high.

Last I heard kirksey had power. That's 2 miles away. I think just highway 299 has power. I live on 464 it crosses 299. The post office is less then a 1:4 mile from 299 on 464 and has no power.

Once again I know I'm giving FEMA hell. I'm not asking anything from them personaly. Just be nice to see them. Or have them or so offical stop to check on us. Just seen the guard in Benton. I pass the Murray guard (they are mp) parking lot is full but not seen them out.

When the limbs brake it did sound like a shotgun going off.

Could get a little snow Monday.

 

[Magnethead]

i just seen the pic, Nick. Just now noticed you ask me to post it, was bout to anyways:

 

[Magnethead]

But amiee is right paducah was really not effected much but that's where the tv station and about the olny radio station is so FEMA and the guard go there to get publicty and go out with tv crews. If they came to Murray they would of got 15 secs of " the national guard and FEMA were in Murray today" and that be it. My power ... Read Morewas the 1st to go and the way it looks will be the last turned on. There were areas that got hit harder then Paducah like what aimee said. But they are getting nothing on the news. And since they got power they have forgotton about the rest of us.

I would agree. They want TV time. But if you guys dont have food/power/ect, kinda hard to have any updates on much of anything. Thank goodness for 3G internet? lol.

 

[Lap3Forever]

I don't have 3G service. I think I've still under edge.

They have power two miles from my house. I can go outside at night and see lights. One night a power company drove by with a spot light checking the lines. In 11 hours it will be a week without power. Really no news today. I'll watch some of the local news in an hour and see what they say.

 

[Lap3Forever]

Tonight around 640 I was watching two and a half men on fox (reruns 6and630) I was kind of looking out side and I seen the sceatury light come on then I looked up to my celling and seen the fan kick on. It was about 8 hours less of being a week. Sure better then a month.

 

[WNY24Fan]

Awesome news, Nick!!! The way our streets are wired, it would be two streets house back to back w/o power and then 2 with power, etc. We kept ours and it was all dark across the street. After a couple of days, a bunch of those neighbors across the street had gotten generators when a transformer blew and all of OUR power went out on the streets which had power. So they were all toasty and we were getting colder by the minute! Ha ha on us! Fortunately, they got it fixed by the next day, but we had to leave since our son was on nebulizer treatments back then.

I don't remember anything about FEMA back then. Our governer declared a state of emergency so we'd get federal funds for clean-up, etc., from what I understood at the time. We waited on the gas and electric trucks, our own and those which came from other places to help. People were so thrilled when they were seen coming.

I hope things pick up fast for the folks down there. It really is no fun.

 

[Mopardh9]

We had an ice storm a while back in Dec, in certain parts of the Berkshires from what i hear they still don't have power. They got hit hard, real hard, i used to live there before i moved to Colorado Springs , so i know a lot of people in that area of Ma. I called a couple of people and they said it is like a war zone still, even after almost 9 weeks! So i know what you are going through Nick, hopefully things will get better quickly.

 

[barelypure]

Kentucky Reeling from Ice Storm; Slow FEMA Response Hit

In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way -- with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.

At least 42 people have died, including in Kentucky five from the storm and six others suspected to be storm-related, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. About a million people were still without electricity Friday, and with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents.

One county put it bluntly: It can't.

"We're asking people to pack a suitcase and head south and find a motel if they have the means, because we can't service everybody in our shelter,'' said Crittenden County Judge-Executive Fred Brown, who oversees about 9,000 people, many of whom are sleeping in the town's elementary school.

Local officials were growing angry with what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees.

"We've got people out in some areas we haven't even visited yet,'' Smith said. "We don't even know that they're alive.''

Smith said FEMA has been a no-show so far.

"I'm not saying we can't handle it; we'll handle it,'' Smith said. "But it would have made life a lot easier'' if FEMA had reached the county sooner, he said.

FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak said some FEMA personnel already are in Kentucky working in the state's emergency operations center and that more will be arriving in coming days. Hudak said FEMA also has shipped to 50 to 100 generators to the state to supply electricity to facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, and water treatment plants.

http://www.insurancejournal.co...02/02/97488.htm

In much the way Bush hated black people and tried to drown them with Katrina this just goes to show that Obama hates toothless white people...

Obama dozed and people frozed

 

[barelypure]

Maybe if you are lucky FEMA will drop off some Ojamas to help keep you warm...

 

[barelypure]

But you know Governor Steve Beshear needs to take some of the heat. The news is now reporting that he left a parking lot full of these snow plows sitting idle at a local school during the disaster.

 

[barelypure]

But then some in the government were warning before hand of the impending disaster and called for an evacuation. However, what most people don't know is that there were raging bourbon parties going in Kentucky on the day before the ice storm and people were too blasted to go ahead with a mandatory evacuation. They laughed it off...and kept drinking.

Fools, the lot of them...

 

[barelypure]

And as if trying to freeze them wasn't enough now they're trying to wipe the survivors out with salmonella poisoning.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent to Kentucky in the wake of an ice storm had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated by salmonella, federal officials said Thursday.

Seems that contaminated peanut butter was sent to Kentucky...

 

[Digger]

http://www.insurancejournal.co...02/02/97488.htm

In much the way Bush hated black people and tried to drown them with Katrina this just goes to show that Obama hates toothless white people...

Obama dozed and people frozed

Maybe if you are lucky FEMA will drop off some Ojamas to help keep you warm...

But you know Governor Steve Beshear needs to take some of the heat. The news is now reporting that he left a parking lot full of these snow plows sitting idle at a local school during the disaster.

But then some in the government were warning before hand of the impending disaster and called for an evacuation. However, what most people don't know is that there were raging bourbon parties going in Kentucky on the day before the ice storm and people were too blasted to go ahead with a mandatory evacuation. They laughed it off...and kept drinking.

Fools, the lot of them...

And as if trying to freeze them wasn't enough now they're trying to wipe the survivors out with salmonella poisoning.



Seems that contaminated peanut butter was sent to Kentucky...

 

[Lap3Forever]

The national guard seen my sign and stoped by the orther day. I was a sleep and did not hear them knock on the door but they went to my grandparents. This was wensday.

The power has stayed on. This warmer weather has really helped out.

I like the snow plows and ojamas.

 

[Magnethead]

The national guard seen my sign and stoped by the orther day. I was a sleep and did not hear them knock on the door but they went to my grandparents. This was wensday.

The power has stayed on. This warmer weather has really helped out.

I like the snow plows and ojamas.

did the NG get an earful over response time?

 

[97forever]

You could have hollered when you were headed to Paris, Lapster.

And yeah, this is two weeks or so out of date, Ive dropped you a line since you posted it...


Its just the title scared me, with Iceland being like the most literate nation on earth and the fleeting thought that YOU were there.

Whew. Glad I read it.

 

[kelloggs5TLfan]

You could have hollered when you were headed to Paris, Lapster.

And yeah, this is two weeks or so out of date, Ive dropped you a line since you posted it...


Its just the title scared me, with Iceland being like the most literate nation on earth and the fleeting thought that YOU were there.

Whew. Glad I read it.

ROFLOL.