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AGH!

Washington had a huge storm on Thursday night, knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people. It's Tuesdays night and I still don't have power!

I have to stay in a hotel since my house is freezing.

Christmas '06 blows.

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Lovely, Mega. Take it the Hotels on generator?

Happened here once, we were out for four days. :D or more, course that was the blizzard of 93'.


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Nope, go a few minutes in any direction and you get power. My street is the only one in the area.

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That reminds me of the crisis that happened in Quebec back in 1998. Some people couldn't get power back in weeks because of a major icy rain storm that caused part of the lines to crash down. I was only out of power for a day or so, thankfully.


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Thank god for California. I only have to worry about earthquakes, volcanoes, tourists, and residents of San Francisco.

Edited by RisingDragon on December 19, 2006 at 19:16:18.


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Last year in November I was in a similiar situation. In South Dakota we had a huge...I mean massive ice storm. There was 3 inches of ice on everything, then we had a blizzard the very next day, and got almost 2 feet of snow. There were 30ft. drifts in some areas... I didn't have power for 10 days. There were 500,000 people out of power during that storm, over half the state. Light poles buckled under the stress. I think I remember them saying on the news that they had to replace over 2 million poles.

Edited by Watcher on December 20, 2006 at 3:19:18.


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Whoa there. Don't make me break out my Pentagram, God. I'm not the partyboy.


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Being down in Florida, all I have to worry about are those damned hurricanes. I was hit badly by one last year and was out of power for nearly two weeks. Good thing I had a generator, though.

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Good thing I live nowhere near there. I only have to watch out for the occasional flooding, tidal waves and rainstorms.


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Good thing I live nowhere near there. I only have to watch out for the occasional flooding, tidal waves and rainstorms.


if the dykes, and i mean all of them at the same time, break down, then our villages will be flooded or very close to the sea.

as far as i know we never had any really big problems, a small shortage perhaps, for about a few hours is the max, i think.

but i do feel sorry for all of you who ever experinced anything like this.


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I live in Ohio so the worst I get are blackouts and the occasional tornado, mainly the blackouts though...


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That reminds me of the crisis that happened in Quebec back in 1998. Some people couldn't get power back in weeks because of a major icy rain storm that caused part of the lines to crash down. I was only out of power for a day or so, thankfully.


I only lost an hour or two of electricity back then. My cousins in the suburbs really had it bad though. No electricity during the entire crisis.

Anyway, I'm not sure any of this is true. Pics or it never happened, Mega.


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I don't have to worry about anything right now, we're apparently having a green Christmas!
December 20th and not a fleck of snow!
I can't retell any major storms I've been through, because there weren't any. There was a major black out for 2 days where I live back in the summer, all our ice cream melted D:


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Yeah I'm having a great christmas myself, no snow and it was 70 degrees a few days ago.

Lol.

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Christ! Are you serious, Hollow? D:

They said it might snow over the weekend over here, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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>.> It's already snowing here... I doubt it'll hold till Christmas, though. Never had a white Christmas, myself.


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Don't make me break out my Pentagram, God.

I think you have the wrong religions artifact, there. You'll need a cross. Religions that use pentacles are rarely wanting to scare away the homosexuals. (And sometimes they attract the transgendered ones :p.)

But Air! He can't upload pics without power! (And he can't take pics in his house if he is at the hotel with power.)

Edited by God on December 24, 2006 at 1:40:23.

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I think you have the wrong religions artifact, there. You'll need a cross.


I think he got it right. Pentagrams are an all-purpose protection against whatever the religion's (if the religion considers it as a symbol) definition of "evil" is.

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...My point was that such religions would not consider it "evil"...

And pentagrams aren't for protection anyway. They're for banishment (magickal banishment). PentaCLES are for protection. Pentagrams have the point at the bottom.

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Hey, you're both wrong! I was trying to be generally antagonistic.

I was going for banishment anyways.


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