Well...it was a long weekend.
Thursday I went to bed around 10pm to get a head start on a early day friday. Woke up around 11:45pm in complete dark and freezing cold. When I opened my window not only did I notice the snow falling but also a sound of the trees poping and groaning. I can almost swaer it sounded exactly like the trees in the Band of Brothers series when the 101st was in the woods with the trees groaning and poping around them. (The popping not caused by the Germans) Was very creepy.
Anyways woke up Friday morning around 6am and called into work to let them know I couldnt make it considering the snow and the car was behind the garage door which only works with electricty. (The key dosnt work) All morning was spent collecting batteries, bailing water out of the sump pump, and listening to the AM radio. My manager called me from work and told me they really needed help. So long story short I made it in. Our store (supermarket) was the only buisness open for miles. It was being run on generators. Most popular item was beer, chips, and propane...
Saturday and sunday were pretty much the same. Spent most of the time clearing trees from elderly neighbors yards. We had to boil all water out of the taps as per warning by numerous people on the radio. (Still have to boil all water)
Sleeping at night plain ol sucked. The humidity had built up in the house. Being that the temps in the house were in the 40's and 30's dew quickly formed on most objects. The joke was our hose was below the dew point. Anyway, you would wake up at night freezing cold and everything would be damp.
Bailing water out of the sump pump to prevent the basement flooding was a pain. It became more so when mother nature decided to make it rain on Sunday.
Power came back on last night. Boy it was nice to sleep in a warm bed.
The supermarket I work at ran out of regular gas and started selling premimum at the price of regular.
The first day close to 300,000 homes did not have power. Today it stands at 169,000 homes without power.Over 5,000 crews are now working around the clock. Some crews are from Kentucky, Quebec, Virginia, and multiple other states and Canadian Provinces.
The death toll is at 8 people. Deaths include carbon monoxide poisoning from running generators inside the house to loss of limbs in chainsaw accidents.
The National Gaurd will be here later this week to help with cleanup. FEMA is already here and causing problems in which I'll do my fingerpointing at a later date. The fake FEMA has also showed up, people pretending to be FEMA and going door to door.
Most of the damage was caused by the fact that the trees still had most of their leaves still.
Before I get to the pictures I would like to put a huge thankyou out to all local firefighters, emergency personel, and the electric company crews from here and all over trying to put our lives back to normal. Also a big thankyou to the Canadian people and politicians helping us recover.
Trees over my garage
Posted a picture of these trees a few days ago. Now quite different...
Neighbor's tree in their front yard. A few feet from my drivway.
Plant.
Car few houses down.
Neighbor's tree across the street from me.
My tree in my front yard. Bounced back for the most part.
My street facing North. (Towards the lake)
The two trees in our backyard between the fence and the driveway. We were lucky nothing fell on our garage.
Downed limbs in our backyard. Pool on the right.
