The Power is Restored - here, at least

[Tach Deneva]

Due to the recent major ice storm here in KY, hundreds of thousands of people here have been without power since last Tuesday the 26th - myself included. Power was restored here a couple of hours ago. Good thing, too - the low tonight is supposed to be around 11 degrees.

http://www.wlextv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9755138

The first powerless night the temperature in the house dropped into the mid 60s. The second night it dropped into the 50s. Last night it was in the 40s. If it had stayed off again tonight... brrrr. Purp and I camped out in the living room on the couches and passed the time playing Trivial Pursuit. I ventured out yesterday to Wal-Mart and bought some stick-on lights and some food. There were no D batteries to be found, no battery-powered lamps or lanterns, no battery-powered radios, no containers for kerosene (most places were out of kerosene anyway) or gasoline. So, stock up now!

The power went off again as I was typing this - EEK - but came right back on (Firefox restore session saved the text). Whew.

[Buffalo Six]

glad to have you and purple back....now take a shower...i can smell you from here!

[daofcmacg]

Who is purple?

DA

[Tach Deneva]

I am, if I hold my breath too long!

Alf: HAH!

Ms Purple is that mean little woman who lives with me and doesn't like people with monkeys.

[daofcmacg]

Your wife? So where did the shoo shoo go away oh god he's got a monkey come from.

DA

[Tach Deneva]

So where did the shoo shoo go away oh god he's got a monkey come from.

Clickies

[daofcmacg]

That was funny but is her name Purple for real. Becareful with a power outage 9 months later there could be a baby boom in KY (ok that was funny in itself "K" "Y") LoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoL!

DA