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foomf transcribing what he could of my prior entries, I don't need to describe where I've been for the last two days. Power is down all over the Ozarks, including in my apartment.
My brother lent me his kerosene heater. It was useful, for the little time I used it, though it filled my apartment with the smell of fumes. Spent much of last night under heavy blankets, with my cat on top of the bed with me. I took a small travel blanket, folded it up, and tucked it over her. I wish I'd thought to take a picture, it was very cute.
Given that the temperature is going to fall to the single digits within the next few days, my parents figured that they could not wait for the weather to get worse; they needed to come up and fetch me down now. So I threw together as much stuff as I could on short notice, including the perishable food from my fridge and freezer, and we headed on down home.
On the way, we saw hundreds of trees twisted into Dantesque poses by their coatings of ice, trees shattered or uprooted by the weight, and long stretches without any house lights, street lights, or traffic lights. These were somewhat frustrating as it meant they turned into giant 4-way intersections and tended to be very slow. We stopped at a Wal-Mart so my parents could get gas for their car and the generator, which is where I made my most recent voice post, and we got sandwiches from the Subway shop. On the way home, the rain started coming down Niagara-style, but we made it all right without incident.
Power is also down at my parents' place, but they have a portable generator that they can run every so often during important periods—such as the five o'clock news hour. I've got my cellphone charging so I can use it to check my email and perhaps make voice posts every so often, if I can get a decent signal.
My folks hope to have their power back within the next 24 hours or so—but they live in the countryside where the local electric coop is pretty crackerjack about keeping trees away from the lines. The outages down here were caused largely by the weight of ice on lines. But in Springfield, the problem is trees on the lines, and they were all over town.
Anyway, here I am, at home for the next few days, I don't know how long exactly, or when the power will be back.
It's annoying that this happened right now. Just today I heard back from a Robotech voice actress whose agent I had contacted with an interview request. To my delight, she said yes, and would have been willing to do the interview this Friday. Unfortunately, with my power situation, I had to ask to put it off for another week. But c'est la vie. At least I have the commitment for when the power comes back.
It's just about time for the parents to turn the generator off now, so I'd better wrap this post up and finish the other stuff I wanted to do for on-line. Will still check my email every so often, and will check in as often as the folks run the generator.
foomf transcribing what he could of my prior entries, I don't need to describe where I've been for the last two days. Power is down all over the Ozarks, including in my apartment. My brother lent me his kerosene heater. It was useful, for the little time I used it, though it filled my apartment with the smell of fumes. Spent much of last night under heavy blankets, with my cat on top of the bed with me. I took a small travel blanket, folded it up, and tucked it over her. I wish I'd thought to take a picture, it was very cute.
Given that the temperature is going to fall to the single digits within the next few days, my parents figured that they could not wait for the weather to get worse; they needed to come up and fetch me down now. So I threw together as much stuff as I could on short notice, including the perishable food from my fridge and freezer, and we headed on down home.
On the way, we saw hundreds of trees twisted into Dantesque poses by their coatings of ice, trees shattered or uprooted by the weight, and long stretches without any house lights, street lights, or traffic lights. These were somewhat frustrating as it meant they turned into giant 4-way intersections and tended to be very slow. We stopped at a Wal-Mart so my parents could get gas for their car and the generator, which is where I made my most recent voice post, and we got sandwiches from the Subway shop. On the way home, the rain started coming down Niagara-style, but we made it all right without incident.
Power is also down at my parents' place, but they have a portable generator that they can run every so often during important periods—such as the five o'clock news hour. I've got my cellphone charging so I can use it to check my email and perhaps make voice posts every so often, if I can get a decent signal.
My folks hope to have their power back within the next 24 hours or so—but they live in the countryside where the local electric coop is pretty crackerjack about keeping trees away from the lines. The outages down here were caused largely by the weight of ice on lines. But in Springfield, the problem is trees on the lines, and they were all over town.
Anyway, here I am, at home for the next few days, I don't know how long exactly, or when the power will be back.
It's annoying that this happened right now. Just today I heard back from a Robotech voice actress whose agent I had contacted with an interview request. To my delight, she said yes, and would have been willing to do the interview this Friday. Unfortunately, with my power situation, I had to ask to put it off for another week. But c'est la vie. At least I have the commitment for when the power comes back.
It's just about time for the parents to turn the generator off now, so I'd better wrap this post up and finish the other stuff I wanted to do for on-line. Will still check my email every so often, and will check in as often as the folks run the generator.
