Binker is back from Western New York's October Surprise Snowstorm

[Binker]

That's right. As you may have notice, I haven't been online since Thursday night because of the unexpected snow storm everyone here was hit in (now in OCTOBER). At 7:41pm Thursday night, the power went off and if you looked outside later in the middle of the night, you couldn't see ANYTHING. It was all white with lightning bolts and thunder tied into it.

When I woke up Friday morning, all of my trees were down, no heat nor power (of course), ansd one power line was on top of my mother's car. We had a tough time getting though the snow and with no heat (that is until Saturday afternoon), I couldn't bathe. YUCK!

With the freezer everythign cvold running out and being spoiled, we had to get whatever we could get that we could eat and save that wasn't and suppose to be stored in cold tempertures (of course, there was outside which we did play on with a few things).

To tell you the truth, the four without power and etc wasn't all that bad. I still had my books (I read Kingdom Come 2-3 times) and my music. Plus we had batteries for the radio to listen in on what was going on. I gotta tell you: it was like being isolated. The world was moving on and things were happening, and we still staying still.

Now I'm back, I got some catching up to do. Solicitions is up so if its not here, expect it later. And I missed last week's Smallville.

Well I'm glad to be back.

 

[USMC]

Glad you're back, Binker. So who the **** are you?

 

[tzarinna]

Have we met,Binker?

 

[Binker]

Cute. I'm a member here that was always, but wasn't here for a while. Nuff said.

Anyway, 22" of snow was how much we got hit with. Going by my memory. Enough for still, I believe until the update tomorrow, 160,000 of National Grid customers withoutn power now. That also meant alot of schools out for the rest of the week.

I bet the kids are all are crying their eyes out. LOL

But you can't have school without power. That also spells disater for businesses since if their power is out, so is their security.

Other bad things was that was happening to people was that people's basements were flooding. And the generators that people bought, no one knew that they were suppose to keep it outside and alot were hospitalized (including kids) by poisoning. And there were 4 deaths, maybe more. One was cut by the tree that fell on him, others died from car accidents and a couple from the generator poisoning.

 

[tzarinna]

This was in Buffalo?
They always get super ****ed.
That sucks about all the **** that has gone down.
I'm surprised people still don't get that about generators.