[Rick Barker]

Hang in there, LOL because you are still okay.

 

[Leo]

SecondChance, I feel for you. My best friend took his wife to Texas for a couple months to get out of the cold. They are sitting in a little house where they can only run the heat about 6 hours at a time because of electrical problems. The pipes froze and broke. The local store is out of food and they cannot travel much because fuel is not available. The local restaurant is rationing the little food they have. Credit cards are not accepted because no computers are running. He has cash and ammo, the two things the criminals in Washington are trying to eliminate.

Texans are tough, but they still struggle if winter lasts more than 12 hours.

Maybe you will meet a ghost 💀

 

[SecondChance]

Best thing is the owner lives walking distance as does the maid. Both have opened their freezers to us and l volunteered to cook for both in return for their hospitality to the 4 of us stuck here.

 

[Chief 701]

That’s nuts that you are having to do that in Mississippi. It shouldn’t get that cold down there. I feel for you and hope the thaw comes soon so you can get out of there. I know how it feels to be pinned down.

 

[SecondChance]

Yeah, it sucks. We were loading the SUV and then breakfast this AM. We took a look at the weather and saw another storm coming in about 3hrs. It would have had us up near Jackson when it hit, leaving us out on the road and maybe in a bad spot. Not to mention now having to find a place to stay in an area already hard hit by this weather.

 

[Finprof]

Illinois to Mississippi is a trek anytime in Winter. Not so much in Mississippi but there is lots of bad weather that can happen just between Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois.

 

[FlynLiver]

You will be ok its warming up.
15 above today in MN I haven't seen above zero in 12 days.
Remember could always be worse.
Hang in there.

 

[SecondChance]

Well, it has gotten worse now, MUCH!! TV just went black!!! "No Signal"!!!! Wife is keeping her hairpick in a lanyard around her neck now!!!! Well, at least the dinner was amazing and the bed is huge. She will get cold soon. Then want to snuggle.
Ah, WRONG!!! Loose the hairpick and come on baby, back on up!!! LMAO!!!

 

[CharlieAMA]

So much for global warming. I hope Al Gore, ya know the guy that invent the internet, is freezing his nuts off. Oh yea, he don't have a pair. Well, I hope he is freezing his butt off.

 

[JBrooks]

Gore is fine. Montecito was about 67 today.

 

[Ken C.]

Bah, in a couple months everyone will be b****ing about the heat. Maybe not “everyone”, but I will.

 

[Fieldstone]

This event should get us all to say "climate CHANGE" rather than just a one direction move to "warming" everywhere.
That said, I am happy to have a 11K generator for as long as the propane lasts.
Stay healthy

 

[Doc!]

SecondChance - what part of MS are you stuck in? I live in the central part, NE of Jackson (DON'T LIVE IN Jackson LOL ) ...... this is unusual for us. A couple days ago we had winds like you see in South Dakota, sleet, ice and thunder and lighting all at the same time.
We are more prepared for a cat 5 hurricane or a tornado than an ice and snow storm. Things are not suppose to thaw until maybe Sunday

 

[Davesch]

Here in Raleigh, it's been a cold and wet this winter but no frozen stuff so far. However, the cold air from the mid-west has shifted eastward and is mixing with rain; the forecast is for up to 0.2" of ice forming on trees and power lines. Could be dicey.

We have a 22kw standby generator fed by natural gas, so no worries about loss of power. In the case of a power outage, it comes on and connects to the house, then shuts off and reconects the house to the grid, all automatically.

 

[o-hale]

Life has to have bad things/times so that we remember to appreciate all the good we are blessed with.
Just the way it is my friends.

 

[SecondChance]

This event should get us all to say "climate CHANGE" rather than just a one direction move to "warming" everywhere.
That said, I am happy to have a 11K generator for as long as the propane lasts.
Stay healthy

Funny you say that. I just spoke to my propane company about upping my tank size for l am looking at getting a Generac 25-30K generator at my house. Have a perfect place for it. Easy hook-up to my propane line and close to my power box inside. Home insurance agent says no incentive for a power stand alone system. So OK, on my own.

Doc!, l am in Vicksburg. Lower part along the river.

 

[Rick Barker]

Just make sure you get a wind driven or solar powered generator, or AOC will be on your case. She said this would not have been such a problem if the New Green Deal was in full effect.

 

[SecondChance]

If she is close enough to see what type of Generator l have, she will for sure be seeing something else that is not wind or solar powered closing in quickly!!! 137lbs of fawn colored Presa Canario. And thats the nicer of the 2 at my house!!!

 

[Doc!]

Doc!, l am in Vicksburg. Lower part along the river.

Know exactly where you are -- been there a bunch. Years ago I worked out of an office in Vicksburg -- up by the Ole Court House Museum ----
Vicksburg is probably the hilliest city in the area......... Steep climb up the street to get to Washington St.