day four and counting

[kassidy62]

Yesterday I put the wet wash out on the porch so it wouldn't mildew. Today I threw out all the food in my freezer and refrigerator. I'm going to help Mom do hers in a few minutes. Luckily her power was turned on late last night, so I'm at her place now. My cats are still at the house, but I brought my dog. The cats don't seem to do badly in the heat, but then we haven't hit 90 deg. since the storms. Apparently it will tomorrow. The cable guy was up the pole in back of my house, and I asked him, why aren't you KUB (Knoxville Utilities Board)? I don't know if he was amused or not. KUB says some of us may be out of power until the middle of next week - that second batch of storms Thursday night set them back. My old dog is with me, and resting much better. Thank you, C, for letting us stay with you last night:) Love you very much.

I live in the heart of Knoxville, urban, crowded, too damn loud. A block away from me is a shopping center, restaurants, etc. I've never lost power for more than a night before.

Thought I might show you some photos before I sign off and get to work. These are taken a couple of days after storm 1 hit, just a block or two from my place.






the library and park below it:








remember the church that got hit by a tree in April? Another one came down, this time with no damage to the church:



Last but definitely not least, the tin roof house lost the battle here. This is en route to Mom's house:




Thumper,15 wunnerful wunnerful years:

Comments

[igbc.livejournal.com]

:-( I lived in Knoxville for a while. I'm so sorry you're having to go through this. I know it's no fun at all, but at least Thumper's with you. :-)

Best of luck for a quick re-powering.

[kassidy62.livejournal.com]

hi, I'm pretty much back to normal, and wanted to thank you for the note last week. We got the power back on Saturday night, but the heat really took it out of us while we waited, and dumped our refrigerator and stuff.

You lived in Knoxville, how 'bout that? Me, I'm ready to go somewhere where I can get a little space, personally:)

[greenlady2.livejournal.com]

God! This is horrible. I went three days without power once, about 20 years ago. That was in the dead of winter, though, so the cold made it worse in many ways. I can see that heat would be pretty bad too. Gah! What difference does it make? More than a few hours without power is horrible, period. Hope you don't have to suffer much longer. Take care.

[kassidy62.livejournal.com]

it took me some time to get over it - the power came back Saturday evening, but I'd gotten very tired trying to cope with the heat, and around here, the humidity's the killer. I became pretty depressed during the four days, what with the heat and darkness, worrying about my mother and pets, getting the children somewhere comfortable, then running back and forth to Mom's place. She got power the night before I did, thank God, because she just did not want to leave her home.

Thanks so much for the concern - it was nice to hear from you (and I enjoyed the virtual gift you sent as well)! Hope you never have to go without power again either - enduring the cold sounds horrible, too.

[greenlady2.livejournal.com]

Whew! I'm so glad you're okay. I was starting to get worried.

Yes, dealing with no power is so hard. I know people did without it for all of history before the 20th century, but then their life expectancy was a lot lower, probably because they didn't have lights and fridges and computers and air conditioning and so on. Right? :-)))

The cold for three days was horrible. We had a fireplace but it wasn't much use, not being designed for heating a big house or cooking dinner. My little kitty Dannie spent most of the time curled up in my lap trying to keep warm, and I was scared for her. Then the lights came on and she jumped up off my lap and ran around all excited. So cute. :-)))