WOW, it's good to be back.

Elwood · April 1, 2003

I just spent 37 1/2 hours with no electricity, which wouldn't bad except it is the only source of heat in these apartments we're in that have no insulation. And the last 48 hours with no cable or internet.

We lost all power and heat at 9 o'clock Sunday Morning and got it back about 10:30 Monday Night. It was so cold in my apartment Sunday night that when I took the ice out of the freezer that had fallen off the top and sides from not having power it did not melt in our sink. My wife stayed with a friend, but I needed to stick around because I hel run the building here. I slept in a tee-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, and a sweatshirt, wearing a tobogin and with two blankets and I still froze and could not sleep.

I could deal with no power if we had other heat, but when there was 10 inches of snow on the ground Sunday morning and we had absolutley no heat it sucked. We put about 120+ miles on the Blazer driving around because thats the only place we had heat. We spent 1 1/2 hours in Wal-Mart lst night and only got one thing that was $0.88 just because we didn't want to leave the heat. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad if the power compnay would've given us a realistic estimate, but they kept saying it would be a couple more hours at about 8a.m. Monday morning and we didn't get it until 10:30 that night. And the fact that they would not even come look at it Sunday when it went out and they said 500+ students with no heat or power was not a priority and were not even going to come Monday morning until the College President pulled some strings.

I felt really out of touch not being able to keep up with the war too. But it's ok now, and I have alot of cacthing up to do on CNN and on this forum.

OK, I'm done complaining now.

chevy4x4trucks · April 1, 2003

Wow, I feel your pain, that's gotta suck. Now you just need to take the week off and thaw out

BigPappa95 · April 1, 2003

That's bad man. But try going without it for a week in the middle of December. I was one of the last in area to get mine back, and I work for the darn power company!

MarkD · April 1, 2003

Man that sucks! Glad to have ya back tho. :thumb:

Gotta say though, I'm kinda suprised you don't have a sub-0 sleeping bag. Mine has saved me on more than one occassion.

Elwood · April 1, 2003

I could've handles better before we spent three weeks in a row with 50+ degrees and this came out of nowhere, we were totally unprepared. And if we had ANY other source of heat, but we had ABSOLUTELY NO Heat.

As for the sleeping bag, I do have one, but it is stored at my parents house. We live in a two room apartment and have very little room for storage.

If we did have the storage I'd keep the sleeping bag and a kerosene heater here for these cases.

Stepside Z · April 2, 2003

I could've handles better before we spent three weeks in a row with 50+ degrees and this came out of nowhere, we were totally unprepared. And if we had ANY other source of heat, but we had ABSOLUTELY NO Heat.

As for the sleeping bag, I do have one, but it is stored at my parents house. We live in a two room apartment and have very little room for storage.

If we did have the storage I'd keep the sleeping bag and a kerosene heater here for these cases.

Man that stinks. When I build a house it will have a wood stove. I know you cannot have one in an apartment. Lived in Maine to long to feel comfortable in the cold weather without one.

Elwood · April 2, 2003

I hate it. My parents have a coal/wood stove in their house, and they don't use it very often anymore (they used to use it as the main source of heat), but mine when the power was out there for a few days they had it and it saved them.

Of course no longer than our power was off we could've maybe been ok if we had any insulation in this place, but we have none. So as soon as the heat went out all the heat we had went right out of the apartment and we were screwed.