[Markem]

The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618

[Lew Hodgett[_5_]]

"Markem" wrote:

snip a tale of Mother's activities

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.

Glad to see nobody got hurt.

Never forget Murphy's 4th law:

Mother Nature is a bitch.

Up with grits.

Lew

[jo4hn]

Markem wrote:
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618
Didn't you used to live in Iowa? ;-)

Glad you survived. The house intact is pure gravy.
mahalo,
jo4hn

[Lee Michaels]

"Markem" wrote in message
...
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Glad everyone is OK.

What do you do for food and lights without electricity?

And I guess you bath/shower atleast once a week whether you need to or not.

[Markem]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 18:34:41 -0400, "Lee Michaels"
wrote:

What do you do for food and lights without electricity?

Camping gear and candles, fire in the fireplace. Going to bed at 9:30
when it starts to gets really dark. Made a nice red sauce with Italian
sausage on the camp stove. Boiling the pasta however sucks. You make
do as best ya can. No ESPN however sucks too.

Mark

[Morris Dovey]

Markem wrote:
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so).

That's a lot of wind.

The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

Suggestion: share some of the white pine you don't want with local
carvers and sculptors.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Probably not just for you.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.

I'm really glad that white pine missed the house - or it might have come
out differently.

So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

[Lew Hodgett[_5_]]

"Lee Michaels" wrote:

What do you do for food and lights without electricity?

And I guess you bath/shower atleast once a week whether you need to
or not.

A 2 burner propane fired camp stove, a pasta pot and a cast iron
chicken fryer.

Canned meats and veggies.

Fresh onions and cabbage.

Lots of cheeses.

Battery and/or kero lighting.

Heavens, sounds like a well stocked galley.

Time to go sailing.

Lew

[Puckdropper[_2_]]

Markem wrote in
:

The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618

Markem,

Have you had a chance to see some of the radar images from that day?
It's amazing. The storm that hit is being called an inland hurricane.

If you're interested, take a look at this website, and scroll down until
you see Radar Archive on the right side. Select May 8, 2009 and click
"View Archived Radar Loop" and wait.
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=PAH

One of my friends called today and told me about the storm. The whole
area is in rough shape, but they're ok as is their house.

Puckdropper
--
"The potential difference between the top and bottom of a tree is the
reason why all trees have to be grounded..." -- Bored Borg on
rec.woodworking

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

[Markem]

On 16 May 2009 23:46:07 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

Have you had a chance to see some of the radar images from that day?
It's amazing. The storm that hit is being called an inland hurricane.

Ah yes the meso cyclone, granted to leave plenty of large wood chips
everywhere. Mother must be a woodworker eh?

It was very amazing looking out the windows too. It pretty destroyed 3
counties electrical system by bringing the jet stream down to about
400 feet above see level.

http://thesouthern.com/storm

Mark

[[email protected]]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:21:41 -0500, Markem
wrote:

The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618

Glad you're OK.

10 years ago, I would have had no idea where Jackson County, IL, was
located. Fast forward through some years of family history research
and I now know that my maternal grandmother grew up there - born in
Sand Ridge Township in 1887.

John

[Leon]

"Markem" wrote in message
...
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

Welcome to Hurricane type weather. LOL We had similar weather back in
September, we had those winds for about 12 hours, I was glad to have known
it was coming and to have slept through most of it. We were with out
electricity for 11 days and 8 hours. It does get pretty irritating after
about 3 days, no? Aside from not being able to take a warm shower is
having to use flash lights and candles after sunset. Especially irritating
was hearing A/C units running at night and seeing porch lights across the
street 5 days after the storm when all power lines in our neighborhood are
underground.





It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Be sure to show the insurance adjuster all of those damaged trees.




Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618

[Cooniedog]

Where do you live in Southern Illinois?

I originally from Harrisburg and graduated from SIU in Carbondale.

Cooniedawg

Markem wrote:
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618

[Markem]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:58:29 -0500, Cooniedog
wrote:

Where do you live in Southern Illinois?

Just a hop, skip and a jump from campus, near Country Club road and
Chautauqua road.

Run

Country Club Rd & Chautauqua Rd, Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois 62901

Through google maps

Mark
(sixoneeight) = 618

[Mike]

"Markem" wrote in message
...
The eighth of May was a windy day in the area (100 mph for a hour or
so). The imposed a lack of electricity which lasted 7 days and 6
hours. I was home all alone, wandering back and forth in the house
amazed (no fear other than do not let anything hit the house). We have
lost about 12 trees most were going to removed at our leisure. One of
the trees is a white pine it lay across the turn into the garage, it
is about 30 inches across at the base and 26 inches 10 foot up. So we
lost 2 trees we wanted to keep, a sawyer will be by to turn the white
pine into boards to be dried and used.

It was very nice to take a hot shower last night.

Minor gutter damage is all the house suffered.
So who wants free firewood (bring your own chainsaw)?
It is Jackson county area.

Markem
(sixoneeight) = 618


I also live in southern IL, we lost power friday afternoon a little after
1pm. Took a few cold showers, oil lamps and candles for light, cooked on the
grill and used pots and pans on the turkey fryer burner. Power came back on
Wed. night.
Mike S.