I’m looking for a weather proof cord connector. Someting that I can plug extension cords ends to together inside of, so moisture does not cause the attached GFCI pigtail to trip.
Think I’ve seen them somewhere, but am drawing a blank owhere and what they are called.
Snow and ice headed this way and we are trying to solve this problem in a short time. We had issue with GFCI pigtails tripping durring the rements of Ike when it tore up our grid.
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Northern Safety Eqipt. has a protector like you need called a drag strip connector protector item no.186-8382 listed for $12.49 in their latest print catalog 800 631-1246
That's the beast.
Now if I can find a supply of them locally, I in business.
Thanks.
Dave, call them up - they'll ship to you and you'll have them in a couple days.
They can be called until 7 Eastern time.
We don't have a couple days here, it's coming tonite.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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But he'll need them for more than this one time I presume ??
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Just trying to help the man out.
I tell ya, every one here is all a-twitter with this storm coming, they remember '03 when the big ice event crippled the area for days and days.
Just not used to it I guess, we always seemed to manage up in Pa. But here and in NC where I was, people freak out.
I feel real bad for the linemen, we had an outage here a few weeks back and it was the nastiest night of the season, the poor guys were out there in the bucket at 0300 and zero.
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Nope , I'm a wuss. I don't leave the house without my thermals this time of year !!
Rain or snow are easy to handle but ice is a real tough nut !!
We had a bad one in 98 that people still remember very vividly.
Good luck .
We're hunkered in, got most everything we need 'cept backup Ele. I'm on a different power co than the one Dave is with, just barely..a small co-op but I think they all band together when the fan recieves the poop.
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Thought you were proficient with hand planes !!!
I don't plane by candle light...yet.
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We're supposed to get 4-7 inches of snow, plus some freezing rain. Joy Joy joy. Global warming, bring it on.
plus some freezing rain. Joy Joy joy. Global warming, bring it on.
It's that global warming causing the freezing rain. It's not cold enough to make real snow.
Hey - if you see that Duane and I have gone silent tomorrow, head for the grocery store. It's coming through here before it gets to you.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
The grocery stores have been plumb cleaned out of milk, bread and batteries. Think there is a beer shortage too.
Couple of Nancy's. I'm supposed to drive to Ashland tomorrow. I saw the boss when I got in this evening . He said we may cancel that trip because of the weather. (I've never heard him even acknowledge the weather before) If we do that he wants me to drive to Georgetown and work. He doesn't get the concept of icy roads.
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He doesn't get the concept of icy roads.
The problem here in '03 wasn't the icy roads as much as it was downed powerlines and trees. I was trying to get to Lowes to be there in line to try and buy a generator on Sunday morning and a tree fell right behind me. Got a little further up the street and it was blocked. I had to drive up somebody's driveway and across their back yard and their neighbor's to get out. It was like being in a maze anywhere you tried to go.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to redo the fuel lines on my generator last summer like I promised myself I would.
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Yar, Matie!Batten down the hatches!We're in for a Blow!AitchKay
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I won't be sharing your storm, just commiserating.Up here in Ann Arbor, it's flurries and 11 degrees forecast tonight.The accumulated plowed piles range up to 5-6', more than we usually see these last 20 years.But there's a serious mountain that I've got to climb where the U of M dumps the snow from the football stadium/basketball arena parking area.It's got to be 50' high! Don't know how they get the snow up to the top of the pile -- some sort of conveyor?Will take knucklehead son out for manly adventure -- full report to follow.Meanwhile, hang in there.Aargh!Aitchkay
Tape the bejeezus outta it w/ele tape for now.
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Hopefully I won't be out there plugging things up for them. If we can get the ones slatemen found, I ll just make up the cords and send them out with the generators and trailors.
NWS is calling for us to get hammered. They say it could be worse than the ice storm that hit you all a few years ago.
Not looking forward to mor 16 hr. days like we did with the Ike storm. They did us all some cheesie #### ball caps for that one though <g> in addition to a nice fat paycheck with all the ot on it.
Yeah, this one has the makings of a doozy. I'm set. Next yr. I hope to have a small gen tho'. Propane 3500w just for the little things.
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I don't know if you will get this in time but this is the manufactures rep. for Northern KY and IN.Mr. Steve Powers
VGL Resources Group, Inc.
8386 Peach Blossom Dr.
Centerville, OH 45458-3242
Phone:(937) 855-7600
Fax:(937) 436-2655
[email protected]They should know who they sell to.And the manufacture.http://www.trci.net/Looking at their web site and the type of products that they make I would be suspecting that Contractors Supply type of places would be more likely to handle them rather than electrical supply houses..
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Dave, it looks to me like it's breaking up a little as it gets closer. I sure hope you don't get what we got in '03. I was without power for 11 days. Food was a little trickey for a few days, so load up on canned goods. We had no warning and weren't ready and suddenly there wasn't anywhere to buy food for about a week.
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Did any of those pics make it?
(sorry to the dial-uppers)
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Longest empty post in BT history I do believe.
I'd delete cuz if it did work, some dial upper will want to whup you for the load up/ crash.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Sorry. Deleted.
Too bad, too. awesome ice pics. Showed up on my computer, FWIW (nothing).
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Was this the pic?
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Hey! That's me! How did you get that?!!
(I'm the big guy with the beard)
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Is that you in the shorts?
Oh how soon you forget that night in Conneaut.
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All I remember is something about snoring, flying shoe, and feathers.
And then the hooker died. :(
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from an ice pic.
Sir, I cannot recall the hooker.
Good answer.
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ice pic?
Did that work?
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I'm embarrased. But determined. I will upload a photo, if it kills me. Or you.
It worked.
They were posted last year about this time, what a mess.
Hey, If I fall off the map tomorrow, it'll probably be satellite related, I have all our batteries on chargers and the power inverter for the van to fire up the laptop..but if the phone and sat go away..I'm stranded. I even sprayed the dish(s) with silicone till they dripped..that'll help I hope.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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It worked? I don't even know what I did. Isn't there a tutorial somewhere for idiots like me?
And a year old at that... Oh well.
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Annarborite? You shop at Electric Tool?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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E-Tool? They're the best! But Pete just told me they shut down in Columbus. Durn it! Now they're down to just your store and my store, I think. Hard times all 'round.(Don't tell anyone, but you're my secret $200 getaway -- The Toledo Art Museum, COSI, Real Seafood Co ((the Ann Arbor RSC doesn't hold a candle to Toledo's)), and a night or two in a Maumee hotel away from our email -- what's not to like? And depending on your proclivities... well, we are driving right by the Dundee, MI Cabela's, aren't we? -- more dead animals than you can shake a fish at!)BTW, we did some aniline-dyed tables for Barry Bagels quite some time ago -- I think it was the Maumee location. We've got just one on the west side of Ann Arbor.AitchKay
You're not the guy I corresponded with about e-tool and the fest a couple years ago are you?
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No, don't think so, but pleastameetcha!AitchKay
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Ann Arbor?
Here's your snow report Gunner. Plenty.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Speaking of Calvins, here's my own Cal doing the heavy lifting in 2005 -- he's within a fraction of 6' now.114914.19 AitchkayPS Named after my own Dad Calvin J , 1909 - 1989
You got a direct link to that message (114914.19 ), I'm having no luck finding it.
Calvin J? Get the heck outta here-not Jon for the middle name is it?
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I even sprayed the dish(s) with silicone till they dripped..that'll help I hope
Now ya done it.
All that silrecon is gonna cause the signals to slade off the dish and contaminate the ground.
Yu'll be tracken BT all over the house, and then dogs'll be either chewin on yer boots or marken over them.
They let me drive the company truck home last night, since I'm on call. 4WD is nice getting out of my county and to the interstate. After that, except for a few yokels that were scared shidless in the way it was smooth sailing into work.
We got about 4" so far in Henry Co., little less in Louisville Metro. Course it is not over yet. Ice and sleet are following this run of snow.
1/2" Ice here..no snow at all. Freezing rain as I type.
Dogs are sound asleep have yet to go out an peee since about 0300. I don't do paper in the house, they WILL be outdoors in a minute..LOL
Still got juice, still got sat. French toast is next..
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My boss called this morning about six and told everyone to stay home. That's a first. We're not that busy so we can make up what we get behind on pretty easy. I already had soup made for lunch so I poured it in the thermos and went back to bed. That's also a first. Usually when I'm up I stay up but I was tired this morning and decided to take advantage of it.
Wife works for Metro and when I gave her the news that I wasn't going to work, I added that she was forbidden by me to go to work also. Usually I have to give her a boot to the #### to get her up in the morning but she jumped up and had the TV on and was scoping the whole thing out. Full of chatter and excitement as I tried desperately to go back to sleep. Metro didn't close so she had to call her boss and use the "My husband forbids me" card on him.
You know it's bad when we close.
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So far, it's not too bad here. The roads are slick, but the trees aren't loading up too bad yet. But, I think it's just getting started.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Not a spec of snow here, but everything is iced over bad. I got the van stuck on the level gravel drive when I tried to move it from a nearby tree. Just spins on the glaze and won't crack through.
I'd say the ice is 3/4" thick on the ground.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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We got about 2" of snow before it started sleeting.
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man I don't envy you guys at all today !
hope y'all come through it ok .
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Gracias.
See below. Looks like Duane just got eradicated.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Nope, not down and out yet..power back and satellite back..whew. I'm getting on your project as soon as I hit post and knock out all I can.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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You can go ahead on the big ones, but wait on the small ones. If she goes for it, the small ones will be priority. I'll know directly.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
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As I opened AOL and tooka quick look and went to this reply..I lost power and both responses. I'm on dial up now and LT battery.
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We got a good layer of ice here before the little bit of snow. It's going to be a mess.
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Looks like there's a little break in the action coming. The trees are starting to ice up here now, but the temperature is rising.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
I haven't even looked outside. I know I have to shovel it later so I'll see enough of it. LOL
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Just went out to start the Jeep so I can get some Beer and Popcorn for later. We are froze solid. Ice rain is hitting. Kind of lightly right now. But the snow is frozen over. I didn't even break through it and I'm not that light.
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Went out with the other unprepared mouth breathers to pick up supplies. Raining steady. On the verge of going to ice. Maybe it will stay warm enough to avoid it all freezing before rush hour.
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From what I'm hearing from our outage managment people wester Ky got hammered and it may hit us this evening. Looks to me like it is tracking a little south of us so Shere and seeyou could catch the worst of it.
Throw a blanket or tarp over the jeep. Beats the heck out of chipping ice.
The bad thing about this storm is it's so drawn out. The tail end if it is still in New Mexico.
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This is getting a little rougher. I'm losing tree limbs at an alarming rate. Pretty much one whole tree in the front yard. The backyard where the power lines are is really losing limbs. None in the lines so far. I'm getting ready to go out and take a look. Sewer froze up I think, neighbors did it yesterday. I'm thinking it may be on the city side though. I'll look into that tomorrow.
The worst part is now the wife is freaking out like it's the storm of the century now. It's 10:30 at night! What am I gonna do about it now?
Good luck out there tonight. Watch your footing, we don't need you with a broke hip here all day recuperating. :)
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They are keeping us on for the duration.
Afraid to let essential and some support personel go home because they may not get back .
LMAO at the two clowns I work with right now. Supervisor ask if two of us wanted to make a trip. They stepped right up, thinking they were going to run arounf locally doing something for him.( Heh, heh, heh,) Neither one had ever been in the service. He sent thier azzes to Madisonville with a truck load of stuff for a WKE of KU service center.
What fun! Drive all night in this shid. that is after putting in the first 16 hours doing snow removal and the "panic" mantenace work the goes on durring these things.
USN taught me well. Never volunteer untill you know the scope of the job!
DW just called. Said they lost power while she was making her first pot of coffee at 4:00 am. She said the woods behind the house might be pretty in the light of day, but right now they sounded like horror movie. Limbs creaking, groaning and crashing under the weight of the accumulating ice.
Branch took out our cable about eleven. That took out the Internet. Using the iPhone now. We've got a huge ice logged branch drooping over our service drop. I expect it to go today sometime. Your wife is right about the sounds of the limbs. We had them dropping like mortars here all night. Everytime one would drop the dog would bolt out of bed. The wife would run from window to window trying to figure out where it came from. Power went out for a few minutes about three. That spurred a whole new panic. It came on a few minutes later. I told her for the hundreth time to leave me alone. I told her if that happens again throw all the blankets on the bed, close the bedroom door and snuggle up. We'll survive just fine. I then grabbed the dog, curled up and said. "Time to earn your keep my little furry buddy." Then I told the wife. "Best thing to do in an emergency is sleep it out." Those guys going to Madisonville are in for a long trip. Suckers. :)
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Bad here too, yup, like mortars coming in.
Was all rain/ice and I haven't seen it all yet..bu power and phone still on miraculously.
More later.
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Embrace the suck!
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I was all content and warm and fuzzy,, till I realized if the big maple goes in half and hits the house..WTF is that gonna do to the Chimney? Well being as I got a rip roaring fire in the stove, we'd be in serious caa-caa real quik.
Running thru my mind, flashlight first, then pants, get the dogs and cats out, shove Rosiee out the door while dialing 911 on whatever phone works..grab the "Holy Cr@p here it comes box" of important papers and nack up discs..arrghh. I did NOT sleep well.
This tree is coming down next, I can't take the chance any more, I had to let the HO ins. lapse when my customer went bellt up and caught me short..I need to re-insure I think. We'd be fa-kacked if we took a big hit.
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How ya doin tough guy? We are same as this morning. Talked to Seeyou a minute ago. He lost power last night. Finaly got his own private grid online. Said he had his Internet running too but he wants to bend copper while he has daylight. Later
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I heard, he just emailed me. Still doing OK here, Mad. Co. has the pumps down, so water is the issue for us.
Snow's blown thru, sky is bright and the yard is a mess..looks like a tornado came by.
I got shop work too, just digesting a huge lunch first..LOL Corned beef on homemade cinnimon raisen french toast..kinda hard to get excited about working with that going on.
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Good deal. I'm gonna see what I can do with this limb saw. Can't get it to stay running. Later.
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Just heard our outage count, state wide, for LG&E/KU is approaching the 400K mark.
Couple of people told me they tought they were at a K-Mart in thier neighborhood. Multitude of "blue light special" from pole mount transformers blowing up.
I'm amazed we're still live here (fingers crossed) Madison Co. has 20K out. I'm on BlueGrass Energy, not KU. Gonna be outta water it looks like.
I was just out walking the dogs, man, the woods are impassable out back.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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They were describing the blue light special on whas radio this morning. Cell phone service has gone to lack as well. I'm still just missing cable and Internet. RECC says they have 37,000 out of 47,000 Without power. I'm downtown Shepherdsville now trying to find propane bottles for my camp stove just in case. No luck. Not a one in town.
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I have 15, if I throw them to you, can you catch?
I'll try.
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Did you look it's over oh forget it, wide left!
whats werid is the temp on the front, one side its in seventys and the other side twenties.
Friend told me he saw people fighting over kerosene. Everything is sold out at Lowes. HD, and Wallyworld
Betcha before this is over we will read about someone dying from CO2.
We haven't been off since 6:30 am Tuesday morning.
Gonna try to catch a couple winks tonight. I think we went to UPS battery discharge about 6-7 times last night. Never lost power or rolled to the generators, but every flicker got us up and running to check and reset alarms,
We have crews coming in from all over agian, but they are saying this is worse than IKE. Covers more area.
I'm on Shelby Energy Co-gp at home. Dw got the little generator running and stoked up the wood stove, so she is good for a few more days.
I'm kinda please with the way her kennel/studio did today. We keep the stat set at 50 degrees just for the dogs. Lost power atound 4:00 am this morning and when she fed dogs about 6:00 pm it was only down to 45. Gotta thank this site for all the ideas and knoweldge I cherry picked while building that building.
The people buying up all the hibachi portable grills had me concerned. They didn't look like they needed an open flame going in their houses. My nephew is a volunteer fireman he said they have been running ragged, mainly on downed trees in the road. He was in his way to third shift last night at UPS when I talked to him. He had heard them responding to a house fire on his radio. First one so far he said. I hope it's the last:
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How ya doing Dave? Getting any sleep?
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I emailed my sister and see called me back. They are in florida.But my 2 nieces and nephew in Middletown are all out of power. She said that he had a kerosene heater in the single nieces house. But she is going out of town for a dance recital for one of her kids. So he was winterizing it and moving the heater to someone elses house.My nephew had be Fire Chief in Middletown until last fall. He said that St Mathews had 3 fires yesterday.I suspect most where from improvised heating sources..
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Got 4 hrs. last night.
We sent a generator to Greenville, KY water company two days ago. It got there late and the crew couldn't finf anyone to let them hook it up. They finally got it installed and the plant running early today. But like Bill's post they are playing catch up now refilling towers.
We are suppose to getting another 800 crews in tommorow. All hotel rooms are filled throughout the areas. We got about 2000 rooms Tuesday, but that wasn't enough. A lot of people with out power have flooded into hotels, limiting waht is available to us. Renting or begging anyplace we can put these guys up. Even getting bunkroom trailors hauled in for several locations, but they are not here yet. There are nearly 400 crews sleeping in thier trucks tonight.
Feeding them is another issue outside of the metro area. We have started providing generators and hook ups for any business that can cater the food to them. One of our site coordinators got a Wal-Mart without power to open so he could clean out all the snack food still on the shelves.
Ike cost us $40 million. They won't even give an estimate of how much higher this one will go.
When I think of the conditions those guys are working in and the lack facilities to take care of them, it make what we are doing a cake walk.
Maybe the small window of warmer temps this weekend will help, but then they are calling for more snow Monday and Tuesday.
On the other hand.
Man is this stuff pretty!
Hope you, Sphere, or seeyou can gets some pics and post them.
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Thanks. My bosses son in law works at one if the few if not the only large hotel that's taking pets. He says it's a literal zoo there. I can't post pics from my phone so I'll have to wait. I'm supposed to be going to Georgetown today. Later.
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I gotta give this a bump and call out to anyone in GA and AL. There are many other states that have sent help, but i just came back from the staging area for Georgia Power and Alabama Power.Those guys are great. They rolled in here ready to rock. Self contained on everything except housing and food, even their own security (don't mess with Georgia Power -They have an armed security force that would rival some SWAT units)
You guys try not to break anything while we have your crews up here. We are going to hang on to them for a week or two.
That's pretty cool about the security. Never heard of that before. I know after Ike they had a rough time getting power hooked back up in the projects where my wife works because of the residents harrasing the crews. I'm pretty proud of all the infastructure workers here. They have really done great. The road crews were outstanding. They got ahead of it and stayed ahead of it. I've never seem them do so well. Everyone has seized the worst of it and made the best of it. And all with a good attitude to. Man I got hit with an ice chunk the size of a cinder block today. It came off a traffic light in Georgetown. It hit the lower center part of my windshield. It shook the whole truck and sounded like a shotgun going off. Scared the bejeezus out of me and the guy that was riding with me. Do you have any idea when you are going to spend the night in your own bed?
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Do you have any idea when you are going to spend the night in your own bed?
No. Our public information people make estimates for the media, but our trouble and storm response people tell us it is still too early to make a good call. I think my department will cut back on our hours when we get all the bumps ironed out of coordinating feeding, housing, laundry, etc for the 4,700 crews brought in (state wide). We thought we had all the steps to the dance down pat after Ike, but this sucker has taken it to a new level.
My guess is down to 16 hr days around Monday, then stay at that level for 8 to 10 more days. Could be wrong if the weather goes to heck on us Monday/Tuesday.
I keep hearing about this storm coming Mon. or Tues. but when I look at the weather they call for flurries. I'm confused about that.
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How are you making out by today?I keep hearing about this Tuesday storm and seeing the same forecast for flurries. Everything here melted out by Thursday. Good thing, because it's not warm today.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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I'm outstanding. Been out cutting up tree limbs and getting my yard somewhat back in order. Didn't lose power so we've been nice and toasty. Cable and internet are out but I don't really miss them yet. I haven't heard from Seeyou for a couple of days. I wonder
If someone stole his generator. This iPhone has been real handy this week.
I'm bringing sexy back.
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Seeyou had power back at 200 pm yesterday, but was unsure if it would stick. Thats the last I heard of him.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I got power back yesterday afternoon. My mom's is still off and several people who got there power back on fairly soon have lost it again. Couldn't remember who I've talked to and who I haven't. We're not getting much thawing yet. A little melt where the sun hits on the pavement, but I haven't seen a single drip off the icicles on the trees or seen any ice fall yet.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Sun came out here today and got some melting started I think the high was around 30. My oldest brother came by and we dared and poked and teased each other until we finally got that limb that's been hanging on my service drop off. We cut it as much as we dared and it still took all I had in me to lift it enough to get it off. I'm not that close to losing power anymore.
I'm glad he came by. I wasn't in the mood to deal with all these trees. I just wanted to curl up on the couch and pretend they weren't there. He was in a hurry because he had a few paying customers to take care of too. So we just took care of the bad ones. Once I got into it I was liking it. Plus it got me away from the old lady who has been nothing but a huge pain since the first rain drop fell. My saw was cutting like #### so I finally deduced that the chain was shot and I went and bought a new one. I took down one whole tree in the front yard, and got everything up front cut up for hauling away. I pulled several limbs out of the ground that were in a foot deep! That's some velocity when they hit.
I'm bringing sexy back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIqwyR1ays
So are we.
I think the jet stream has dipped farther south, so we may just get colder here.
Sphere and seeyou might get hit agian though.
I don't care anymore. I've finaly gotten used to the cold this winter. It can stay like this from now on and it won't bother me. I'm going running tommorrow. I'm through being a candyazz. Time to suck it up and get on with it.
I'm bringing sexy back.
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A guy here had a huge ice piece off a semi trailer roof fly off and completely take out his windshield. Fortunately for him, he was unhurt. You should see his car!
That's my big fear now. I've watching some pretty good. Hunks fly through the air.
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Yes, nothing more unnerving than the sound of trees or lines dropping in the dark night. Even when it warms and they are shedding just the ice that can keep you on edge.Years ago I had young puppy, maybe 3 to 4 months. Got him house broke and let him out to do his thing the morning after an ice store.Right in the middle a tree limb let go about 10 ft away from him.Scared him so much that it took another month before he would go out of the house without me.And that summer we had sewer construction and this big rock grinding machine. Every couple of hours they would lube it from a service truck with a power greese gun. And you would here a pssh for each shot. Even when it was 1/2 block a way he would jump every time he heard it..
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Say! That's not those new octuplets from California is it?
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or Hubbell, or maybe even Bryant, not sure on that one though
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Pass and Seymour has them too,
look for watertight listings http://www.passandseymour.com/productcatalog/product.cfm?cn=14W33&mkt=4
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The link slateman gave me is the one I was thinking of.
We have a couple of emergency trailors set up to haul to facilities around the state that may need our assistance if they loose power of have some type of structural damage. We used them durring the Ike storm remnent that blew through here last fall. The GFCI pigtails kept tripping from damp or wet connections at the plugs laying on the ground. Of course we also lost alomost all those GFCIs and cords when everyone pulled out after the restoral.
We bought out every 12 guage cord and GFCI pigtail at one of the Lowes yesterday. Then someone thought about last falls problems and realized the snow and ice would make it even worse, so I was ask how to fix it.
Came her for some help, cause I was in brain lock. Knew I had seen them somewhere, but couldn't even remember what to call them for a web search.
We wanted something that did not involve making up new cord ends because no maintenance tech will go out with the trailors. Locals contractors will have to set them up as needed, so we had a KISS in mind.
I'm betting that if they go out, we won't get any of them back with even half of what left in them.
Not my concern though, I just ride the bus.
okay !I just want you to be happy Dave ).
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I'll be happy when I get my next paycheck.
We are on 16 hour days untill futher notice.
One nice thing about this company is they feed us well durring storm trouble. We had to go through withdrawal after the Ike Storm. soup and samiches was pour fair compared to the cattered meals they fed us then.
I brought a cot and sleeping bag in this time. I'm not even going to try the 30 mile commute back and forth to home in this stuff.
I now what you mean , we were pulling 16s back in October trying to finish up some capital projects ./on a different note you're the first I'm telling here that I'm pullin' the pin ..retirement begins Thursday.
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Very cool. Now you can make all the fests.
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I can do fly overs in my new Gulfstream.
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Nice. Arrive in style.
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just like a busted bank.
.hope you stay safe tonite
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"hope you stay safe tonite."
No biggie.
So what the heck are you gonna do in retirement?
I'm bringing sexy back.
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first thing is get a hip replaced, then finish fixing up the old homestead
while I drive my wife crazy, buy a truckand sleep in once in a while
bury the maddogby then I'll probably go batshid and go find another job ........, I don't care what that is as long as it ain't electrical....
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Congrats.
I've got six more to make my thirty.
Grandson will be a senior in high school then.
I'll be 68, DW will be 61, so a lot depends on what we get on med. insurance on the next contract.
Trying to get my manager to get me a Hoveround with a trailor hitch (g).
Think I'm one, if not the oldest guy, in our local.
Still haven fun though, as long as the pup (56) I work with doesn't croak on me.
Thanks Dave, I'm going out early on a disability,.... I plan on fixing that right away, but it's mostly due to the economy being in the crapper and work getting harder to find
to say nothing of trying to keep up with the young guns
I got the papers a few weeks back and got all our doubts, fears, and questions answered.actually feels very good not having to run around the Midwest signing books some of my friends are heading to North Dakota, 2 powerhouses being built there, great time of year to be up there.
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One of the good things about being on the power house/lineman side of the IBEW is the stability. Not as volital as the construction trades side. I did all that traveling and living out of town stuff when I was young non-union carpenter. I can't imagine having to do that agian as a senior.
Knowone will ever forget that you were/are and electrician. The only thing that will change is they will all he say "he's a retired electrcian, he ought to give you a cheap price, after all he doesn't need the money." <G>
Run, Forest, Run!
I couldn't agree with you more Dave, the traveling part is a big PITA , aside from having a job someplace the only real positive is the reciprocity of benefits, it's all done with computers now so there is no need anymore to have to keep track of every single local you worked out of , it made life much simpler than keeping track of 20 or30 different locals and when you worked there.
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" Welcome to Walmart."
I'm bringing sexy back.
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my dream job, a pervert greeter, "Hi, I'm not wearing any pants".
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Take jobs and call in sick or drunk everyday until they fire you. I wonder how many jobs you can go through.
I'm bringing sexy back.
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heheheh
great minds, I was also thinking of calling some of my buds and have them drag the whole crew out for a lunchtime pub crawl. those were fun, had some good times in the past showing some jerk shop rocket who the boss really was.
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Sometimes I miss the days of getting hammered in the middle of the day.
BTW congratulations on your first day of retirement. Take a nap.
I'm bringing sexy back.
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Thanks GunnerOK, a nap sounds good then I have to go buy some sandals and black socks.
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http://www.kentucky.com/787 More than 607,000 without power in state's largest outage everThe ice storm that pounded Kentucky this week has now caused the state's largest power outage, surpassing the 600,000 customers who lost power after Hurricane Ike.http://www.kentucky.com/787/story/675865.html"Counties south of Lexington bore the brunt of the major winter storm Tuesday and early Wednesday, with some cities suffering widespread outages of both power and water service.Danville was one of the hardest-hit areas, with power and water knocked out virtually citywide.A generator was in place at Danville's water treatment plant, but residents were asked to conserve water over the next 36 hours so the city can fill its seven towers."If everybody uses water, we won't get them filled, and the water pressure will be horrible," City Clerk Donna Peek said from the city's emergency operations center. Residents are also advised to boil water used for cooking and drinking until they are notified that an advisory has been lifted.A second generator being trucked from Atlanta to power Danville's water treatment plant ran into a regulatory snafu. Peek said a truck carrying the generator was stopped for four hours at a weigh station near Knoxville because it lacked a heavy-load permit to bring the equipment through Tennessee.The truck finally got back on the road just before noon Wednesday, after Kentucky State Police called Tennessee authorities.Water was "trickling in" about 7 p.m., and officials were hoping that homes would at least have low water pressure by 8 p.m.""Madison County and the cities of Richmond and Berea also declared states of emergency, and the county's emergency management agency was requesting National Guard units to help with cleanup. Residents were urged to stay off roads because of downed trees.Shelters were opened on Richmond Road North in Berea and at Richmond's White Hall Elementary School. However, the school shelter had to close Wednesday afternoon when the power went off. People there were moved to the Begley Building at Eastern Kentucky University. A shelter was also opened at Shannon Johnson Elementary, 109 Oakwood Drive in Berea.Most of Berea was without power Tuesday afternoon. The power grid outage affected nearly all of Berea's 10,000 residents. Many were still without power Wednesday.Wednesday afternoon, about 150 people — mostly from Berea — had moved into an American Red Cross shelter set up at Church on the Rock on Richmond Road near the Berea city limits. "And most importantlyhttp://www.kentucky.com/712/story/676174.html"Jessica Simpson likes her new image: country singer
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We took in a friend and her 12 YO son this morning..got me a helper to clean up the mess!!!! She was out of power and water, we're OK powerwise so far, but it ain't over, trees are still dropping and the road is closed again out to town.
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Yup, one of the few.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Where do you go to greet perverts?
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around here that would be anywhere in Michigan.
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