WOULD YOU SUFFER?

[Duchess]

By now many of you have seen what is going on in Texas. If something similar happened to you & your family would you be able to be comfortable? By that I mean, would you be able to keep warm, would you be able to cook? Would you have some semblance of normalcy?

[Clang McFly]

HELL NO. I could barely survive a few months during the winter with a broken furnace and tiny space heaters when living in my parents house in Hoosick Falls.

[Maggot]

After going through it a few times I would be fine now. I could go about a month then I would have to figure something else out.

[Carsman]

Yes.
Back in October 2010 in NE, we had a freak monster 20 degree wind driven 16 inches of"Wet SNOW" storm! The leaves were still on the branches of the 60 foot high trees on our property, of which every one of them snapped in half due to the heavy wet snow on the branches. What a mess, had to eventually call a tree removal company to remove the debris.

Anyway, the heavy wet snow caused most of the power lines in NE to come down, and we were without power for 4-1/2 days!!! And the windy temps all that times were in the low 20's and single digits at night!

We had thermal pane windows, but the heavy winds still made it cold by them! So I put up blankets over the windows in the rooms we stayed in, it worked. We also had a fireplace, it worked pretty warm in that room also.

We had bottled water to drink, and had a campers propane stove, with two tanks, (worked great)  metal coffee pot, 4 oil lanterns, 5 battery lanterns, and 4 flashlights, battery charger, and lots of canned soups, and eggs, hamburger, and other things that cooked quickly. We had the makings for sandwiches. It still was a long 4-1/2 days.

All in all, we fared pretty good considering the situation.

PS: called all hotels in area within 25 to 30 miles that had power, all had no vacancies!

[Duchess]

I think that might be the year that Maggot's kids had their Halloween trick or treating cancelled. 

[sally]

We didn't have power for two weeks after hurricane Charlie. It wasn't freezing, but it was hotter than hell. I think I'd rather it be freezing.

[Duchess]

I hear ya. Back in the day I worked in both and I'll take the cold over the heat any day.

[Maggot]

I think that might be the year that Maggot's kids had their Halloween trick or treating cancelled. 

I can't remember what I had for supper last Friday.

[Duchess]

This is from the mayor of a Texas town. Keep in mind the people of that town have PAID for a service just like you & I do.

[BigMark]

* perish

[Maggot]

He said what a lot of people are thinking but shouldn't have said it out loud, he should have lied and said he was doing his best to help all the people in his district like a good politician would say. Much like what Cuomo did.