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Thanks for your update, liz. I cannot even imagine.
What on earth do people do who are impoverished, have no car to evacuate, no money for anything. I never hear anything about it from any news source. __________________ |
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Completely unrelated situation but I thought of people in Russia who drive, walk, bike to Kazakhstan, Georgia and Mongolia to escape draft and how they often have to give bribes to Russian police and recruiters if they get stopped. But what if one has nothing? No money for bribes? No money to feed themselves as some walk to the borders for like 3 days. Same here with hurricanes. No car? No money for gas. No money for hotel. No money to stock up your pantry. What happens to those people???? Who takes care of them? |
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I always wonder about it. When we were having the terrible wildfires a couple of years ago we were constantly being warned that we'd have to evacuate. Well, I decided that I just wouldn't. It was out of the question. I have 5 cats and a 2002 car that is a dear thing, but certainly not reliable. No money for all that gas, and sure none for a hotel! I never heard a peep about what to do if you don't have a bank account with thousands in it, a new, reliable car, and provisions for your pets. My son and DIL were just in Georgia (the country) for 2 weeks. He said that Russians are generally disliked in Georgia because they take advantage of the lower prices in Georgia by bargaining to pay less for higher quality, and that Russians look down on Georgians and mistreat them, which of course, Georgians resent. __________________ |
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#44
????? I thought I posted a reply earlier, but it's not here. Or I'm so stressed I'm not seeing it.
Power is still out. Still keeping phone off to conserve battery. I think I might be able to hear repair crew a couple of miles away. Fingers crossed. Next time this happens, and it will happen again I am leaving no matter what. I came up with a solution to getting cats in carriers. For those wondering what people with limited resources do.... busses went around offing rides to shelters for homeless folks. I don't know if rides were offered to people in poor neighborhoods. There is a large migrant population in my are. I'm wondering how they did. Some folks shelter with other people in their homes. Some hunker down in place and hope for the best Okay, phone says time to sign off |
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I hope & pray you get power VERY soon, liz. That's interesting about the buses. I wonder about people's animals, though? I'd die with my cats before I'd leave them.
btw, once I had to escape a dangerous situation with 9 cats and my rat. The rat had her cage, of course. I had 4 "real" cat carriers and 5 cardboard "temporary" carriers. Well, I grabbed every cat, stuck it in a carrier of one kind or the other, piled all of us in the car, and we made it out of the situation we had to leave behind. I was a lot younger, but I could do it even now, if I absolutely had to. I'd just deal with the slipped back disk later, lol. __________________ |
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#46
I am so sorry that you and your babies have gone through this. Hope peace and calm catch up with you soon.
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Still no power.
Power company now saying it could be Tuesday or later. I used all the buckets of water I stored in the bathtub. Am now resorting to dipping water from the horses' trough. Using bottled water for drinking. Going to the library later today to charge phone and laptop. It is impossible to find a motel room. They are all full of repair crews. Compared to others south of here I have no room to complain. I still have a house and damage is repairable. Still.... I'm ready for this to be over. I'm tired of hauling buckets of water and soooooo want a shower. |
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I HAVE POWER!!!!!!
Power came back on about an hour ago. Power company warned it might go back out. I'm going to refill buckets just in case. Going to go do that in case it goes back out. Once water heater has a chance to do its thing I am taking a nice looooong hot shower! |
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#51
So glad for you, lizardlady! So very glad!
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#52
Ohh so glad to hear that Liz. May it stay on! Enjoy the shower!
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***FANTASTIC!*** I hope that power stays ON!
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#54
Just heard in the last hour that over 400,000 are still w/o power. I can't get over the ferocity of that hurricane.
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People in the area where Ian made landfall may be without power for a month or more. The infrastructure is completely destroyed.
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My power has stayed on. It flickered a couple of times Monday which made my heart go pittypat. Stayed on though.
My water went out last night. My well guy warned me that I need to plan on replacing the pump before the end of the year because of age. I figured the pump had died. I had myself an absolute pity party. This morning when I got up the water was on! Turns out a lizard crawled in the power box and electrocuted itself. Sorry for the lizard, but happy for me! |
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#57
@$^*÷$'@$%**
Power and water are off again. Going to climb back on the pity pot for awhile. I've had all I can take!!! |
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#58
Aww. That sucks lizardlady. I hope they are back on soon.
We went through something similar with our power and water after an 8.8 earthquake. Once the services were reestablished, we still had some blackouts and water shut-offs. They had to sort of patch things together to get things up as running as quickly as possible, so things weren't exactly stable. |
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#59
Aww no! I’m sorry. Hopefully it’s just temporary. What a bummer. Did you still have pails of water or were you caught out?
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Yes, I have buckets of water on the tub. For now they are going to be a permanent fixture.
Power came back on about an hour ago. Pump came on when power came on. I'm living in the 21st century again instead of the 17 hundreds. |
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