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Hurricane Juan
The storm hit Charlottetown fairly hard, with a lot of trees down and
power out over a fair part of the city. Here in the western part of the Island in Summerside we were spared most of the effects. I haven't been downtown but there doesn't seem to be any damage in my neighborhood. I alway keep a couple of Maglite's handy with lots of batteries. I also have a booster pac battery with a 12v outlet and a 12v florecent light. Plus since I have gas hot water and stove I can still eat and bathe :-) chem wrote: Would have been funny to see people fighting over batteries. I've done a bit of reading on survivalism from time to time, but I'm not a survivalist by any means. Having said that though, keeping batteries and flashlights on hand are just common sense - the least you can do. Over here in PEI we didn't get hit too badly. Lots of wind and some rain overnight, and I heard it's supposed to rain for the rest of the morning, but it's stopped for the moment. I dunno, I don't get worked up over things like this. All I think is, "Oh well, could be worse - we could get a couple of feet of snow with the wind". That's coming soon enough. *sigh* Almost time to hunker down for six months of winter. :P But I do love the fall, with all the leaves changing and everything. Is the storm over there or is it still going? Hope you made it through with no damage from those flying lawn chairs! chem Gunner wrote: On 28 Sep 2003 18:13:43 -0700, (Mike) wrote: Well here I am in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada it is 10pm atlantic time and Juan is comming ashore in 1 hr. Its a smaller storm by cane standards but is still packing 80-90 mile/hr winds and a 10 foot storm surge. I am lucky in that I live only 900 yards from the ocean but my house is 200 feet up a steep grade. the power will be out no doubt. Our power company is the pits so it could be out for days. I just made a leisurely run to the gas station to fill up. Then went into a store to pick up some storm junk food. The panic is on LMAO. I witnessed 10 people fighting over the last of the AA batteries I almost **** myself laughing. People are begging for cheapo dollar store flashlights. While I of course being survival minded have stocked up long ago with everything I need and am just sitting back awaiting the fun. The cashier asked me how bad do I think it will be and I said "the damage does not have to be bad to cause major dificulties, the lack of power will set in some panic with people who rely on it for well water and cooking etc..." she said "oh my god I never thought of that" I said " well I have my 200 gals of fresh water and another 200 for toilet, cleaning etc" She got on the phone to tell her husband to fill the bathtub haha. We talk a lot of **** on this news group but when the **** does hit the fan if you have read any of the on topic posts and took notice you would be able to ride out any minor thing like class 1 or 2 hurricane (massive destruction not implied of course). Any way folks thanks for all the info you have provided me in the past and I will post a follow up. Its getting pretty windy now, a patio chairs went flying down the road just now. Time to get off line to safe the pc from a power surge. Got to go eat some junk food and set up the SSB radio. Mike "Anyone who cannot cope with firearms is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house." With appologies to RAH.. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James P Crombie Summerside Machinist Prince Edward Island Amateur Astronomer Canada 3D Designer Astronomy webpage http://www.jamescrombie.com Rhinoceros 3D webpage http://www.jamescrombie.com/rhino/ Mirror Grinder page http://www.jamescrombie.com/pics/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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