I have Electricity!!!

[DJ_UFO]

After an almost long week I have my light back! These days after Wilma were a nightmare. No light, no AC, no gasoline, no gas for bar-b-cue, no food, no water, no telephone lines. We were cooking with debris from fallen trees and some stones over concrete. Shaving outside everyday, with a bowl of dirty water and a razor. Smoking cigars and listening the news on a battery radio. My AC is gone anyways. He died tragically with honor that day. My neighbor's fence crashed him down. He cooled me until the last second of electricity. snif!

Glad to be back on track and working out again!

 

[shamrock11]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck bro. Hope everything in your life comes back together as soon as possible.

 

[Lestat]

After an almost long week I have my light back! These days after Wilma were a nightmare. No light, no AC, no gasoline, no gas for bar-b-cue, no food, no water, no telephone lines. We were cooking with debris from fallen trees and some stones over concrete. Shaving outside everyday, with a bowl of dirty water and a razor. Smoking cigars and listening the news on a battery radio. My AC is gone anyways. He died tragically with honor that day. My neighbor's fence crashed him down. He cooled me until the last second of electricity. snif!

Glad to be back on track and working out again!

Wow man, I am glad you are ok. That sounds pretty crazy. What are the temperatures like? Did you lose weight because you were so hungry? No plumbing or water? Where did you leave the #2????

 

[DJ_UFO]

Thanks bro. Yeah everything is looking almost completely normal now. Tomorrow I need to replenish my refrigerator with fresh and normal food, put some gas on my car and that's it.



Oh! and need to find out if my AC can be fixed or just need to be replaced for a new one.

 

[Lestat]

Its crazy to think that we were all just going about our everyday lives and you were going through that shit!

 

[hamstershaver]

at least there was a cold front after wilma came thru

 

[DJ_UFO]

Wow man, I am glad you are ok. That sounds pretty crazy. What are the temperatures like? Did you lose weight because you were so hungry? No plumbing or water? Where did you leave the #2????

Yeah it was crazy and scary. Nobody was prepared enough. We were prepared. But not enough. It was supposed to make landfall as a category 2 and downgrade to category one over us. Came as a strong category 3 and downgraded to category 2 when it was almost gone so we were hit pretty hard. The temperature the day of the storm was like any other summer day. after the storm, dropped like 20 degrees. That first night after, temp was like 50-55. Today is like 65-70. Not so hot considering that this is tropical weather. We had water from the pipes but with very low pressure and nasty (brown color) So we had to take quick cold showers and drink bottled water. What do you mean by number 2? my wife? She was following orders. lol people use to freak out in situations like this but if you know how to survive, take control of situations and have discipline, there's no problem. Just in case of an extreme tragedy, we had plenty of fallen trees to burn, lots of ducks in the back lake, frogs (yeah it's illegal to kill them but considering that we have more than 10 millions of illegal immigrants on the streets and nobody do nothing about it, don't talk to me about what is legal or illegal when it comes to survival WITHOUT INVADING OTHERS FREEDOM). We didn't get to that point. We had canned food and eggs to cook. At the end, there were some hard, long and boring days but those extremely dark and quiet nights were the most wonderful thing I've ever seen.

P.S. And we have curfew everyday from 8pm-7am.

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

Goddamn! If you weren't so far away I woulda helped you out.

 

[DJ_UFO]

Its crazy to think that we were all just going about our everyday lives and you were going through that shit!

yeah bro! During those days, I talked to my wife and we were wondering, what the world is watching about us right now on TV. We were completely disconnected from civilization. lol. I know now what the people from Louisiana had to suffer. The only difference is that nobody teached them how to survive.

 

[sublime35]

Glad to hear you're alright bro. I know about those long, boring, days w/ out power, water, phones. Luckily we had a generator to run our fridges and had batteries for the radios and small portable t.v. had gas for the grill and plenty of food to eat. You're really lucky that it's getting cooler during this past couple weeks. After katrina it was of course still 95-100 every day w/ 90% humidity. The nights were worse cause you were so hot and uncomfortable you couldn't sleep. I will never be here for another one I can guarantee you that. It's times like that though that make you realize how great our lives our w/ all of the commodities we have. I can't imagine people actually living every day like that, esp. in the heat.

 

[Sassy69]

I went thru Hurricane Irene which was just a little Cat 1 that blew up and I swear it went blazing down the canal I lived on in Pompano Beach, Fl. Only 60 mph but it popped a few transformers in the neighborhood & we went w/o power for 3 days in early October. That sucked. Living out of a cooler w/ dry ice and a gas grill. (The gas grill was pretty cool because my rum & coke went well w/ all the meat I was grilling before it went bad!)

I hear that my old townhome had all the vinyl siding stripped off it and a friend who lives on the other side of my canal was ok but most of the units in his condo are no longer liveable due to blown off roof.

I'm thankful that I've heard from all my friends down there who came out w/ some damage but nothing catastrophic and they are all safe.

Glad you're OK DJ_UFO.

 

[DJ_UFO]

Thanks Sassy! If you were under 60mph winds, imagine being under 95-110. The storm lasted for about 4 hours. Andrew on 1992 had winds over 165mph. That has to be some scary experience.

From Andrew

 

[SoKlueles]

oh im glad ur ok, and you have your power back

 

[pintoca]

GoldenDelicious will be delighted to see you are back online man

 

[chewyxrage]

Welcome to the 1950s!

 

[*MissFit*]

to cold for ac dude