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What a week it has been here in central Massachusetts. The ice storm of December 11-12 was a real winner. It knocked out power lines all over the place. Central and Northern Worcester County looks like a war zone.
We were without power for 8 days. The temp in the house was a nice cool 46 degrees. No heat, no electricity and no hot water. Not much fun to say the least. Sleeping with layers of clothes on wasn't so bad until you had to get out of bed. Then reality set in once again.
Shelters were open in a couple of places in town where people could get a hot meal and a warm place to sleep. We finally got our power back on Thursday evening the 18th at 7:24pm. Eight days without power is really a wake up call. You don't realize how important heat and electricty is until you don't have it, especially in the winter.
The governor declared a state of emergency and the National Guard was called in to help with the clean up. Power companies from all over the east coast and other states inland showed up to get the power back on. The workers from the out of state power companies all say the same thing. Some of these workers have been repairing lines for over 30 years and they all have said that they have not ever seen this kind of devistation and broken trees caused by a storm. Even hurricanes and tornadoes couldn't compare to this mess.
The town of Princeton was hit so bad that they are going to have to rewire the ENTIRE TOWN from the ground up. That's going to take some time and on top of it all we had a snow storm that brought a foot of snow on Friday and more is due today. Princeton isn't expected to be completely up until the middle of FEBRUARY 2009. Talk about bad luck. The problem is the location of some of the homes. In one instance, once you turn on to the side street you count 60 telephone poles before you get to the first house. But the problem is that 30 of those poles have been snapped and have to be replaced before they can be rewired again.
I've taken some pictures of the after math here in my neighborhood. Our house didn't get touched because over the years I took down all our trees. The only ones in our yard are on the perimeter of the property and can wait until spring to be cleaned out.
The following pictures put a new meaning on the phrase "Ice Show". You can view them at:
http://s448.photobucket.com/albums/qq203/matman1313/ice/?albumview=slideshow
What a week it has been here in central Massachusetts. The ice storm of December 11-12 was a real winner. It knocked out power lines all over the place. Central and Northern Worcester County looks like a war zone.
We were without power for 8 days. The temp in the house was a nice cool 46 degrees. No heat, no electricity and no hot water. Not much fun to say the least. Sleeping with layers of clothes on wasn't so bad until you had to get out of bed. Then reality set in once again.
Shelters were open in a couple of places in town where people could get a hot meal and a warm place to sleep. We finally got our power back on Thursday evening the 18th at 7:24pm. Eight days without power is really a wake up call. You don't realize how important heat and electricty is until you don't have it, especially in the winter.
The governor declared a state of emergency and the National Guard was called in to help with the clean up. Power companies from all over the east coast and other states inland showed up to get the power back on. The workers from the out of state power companies all say the same thing. Some of these workers have been repairing lines for over 30 years and they all have said that they have not ever seen this kind of devistation and broken trees caused by a storm. Even hurricanes and tornadoes couldn't compare to this mess.
The town of Princeton was hit so bad that they are going to have to rewire the ENTIRE TOWN from the ground up. That's going to take some time and on top of it all we had a snow storm that brought a foot of snow on Friday and more is due today. Princeton isn't expected to be completely up until the middle of FEBRUARY 2009. Talk about bad luck. The problem is the location of some of the homes. In one instance, once you turn on to the side street you count 60 telephone poles before you get to the first house. But the problem is that 30 of those poles have been snapped and have to be replaced before they can be rewired again.
I've taken some pictures of the after math here in my neighborhood. Our house didn't get touched because over the years I took down all our trees. The only ones in our yard are on the perimeter of the property and can wait until spring to be cleaned out.
The following pictures put a new meaning on the phrase "Ice Show". You can view them at:
http://s448.photobucket.com/albums/qq203/matman1313/ice/?albumview=slideshow