I was getting blown!

[Stella_Omega]

The windstorm came through my area. it was quite an experience, being fairly warm, dry as dust and intermittent-- the air would be still, and we could hear the oncoming wind like a freight train getting closer untill it slammed into the tress and hillsides-- and houses. By 10:00 PM, we were experiencing intermittent power, which was really a spectacular sight when we looked across our little valley to the hillsides opposite us-- blocks of city lighting would wink in and out of existence. By midnight, we were without power, and the sky had more stars in it than Ive seen in quite a while-- would have been more showy if there had been less dust in the air!

And then the transformers started blowing up. Some of them lit up the whole sky. The ones I could see were green and blue sparks, and bits fluttering through the sky.

My power came back on about two hours ago. We conserved our cellphone batteries all day, read and talked by candlight last night-- and went to bed early. The phone lines just came back, and I now can check my email and such.

 

[BiBunny]

Glad y'all are ok.

 

[HottieMama]

Glad you are ok...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I just now went down the street, and past three crews standing under transformers, one crew cutting a small felled tree into pieces, and on place where half a palm tree had downed a power line. There were these huge, thick temporary cables, strung at about half-height to bridge the break-- still higher than anyones's heads, but it looks scary low! I'm betting that was what caused the chain of transformer blowouts.

All of this in the dark. Sun goes down mighty early even in SoCal... And a neighbor just facebooked that she's finally gotten her power back, She's less than a half mile from me.

 

[graceanne]

Wow. I'm glad you're okay, and that your power is back on.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

ohhh I heard about this. I have a friend who's over in SoCal for something or other right now and she posted a picture on facebook of some damage. And thanked the tree for not landing on her car (she's considerate like that). I'm glad you didn't come out worse for wear While it's no good that transformers were exploding all over the place, I bet it look freakin' awesome when it was happening

 

[Loverskitten]

Lordy, the wind gives me such anxiety. About a year ago a huge palm missed my house by foot and a half. The rest of the palms look suspicious. So I'm always so scared of the winds.

(Sheesh I'm like a 12 year old boy. Every time I write 'the winds' I giggle)

 

[YourCaptor]

The windstorm came through my area. it was quite an experience, being fairly warm, dry as dust and intermittent-- the air would be still, and we could hear the oncoming wind like a freight train getting closer untill it slammed into the tress and hillsides-- and houses. By 10:00 PM, we were experiencing intermittent power, which was really a spectacular sight when we looked across our little valley to the hillsides opposite us-- blocks of city lighting would wink in and out of existence. By midnight, we were without power, and the sky had more stars in it than Ive seen in quite a while-- would have been more showy if there had been less dust in the air!

And then the transformers started blowing up. Some of them lit up the whole sky. The ones I could see were green and blue sparks, and bits fluttering through the sky.

My power came back on about two hours ago. We conserved our cellphone batteries all day, read and talked by candlight last night-- and went to bed early. The phone lines just came back, and I now can check my email and such.

You live in socal?

 

[ecstaticsub]

Glad to hear you are ok and weren't without power for too terribly long. Tose transformers blowing up is a scary sound. When we had our freaky pre-Halloween snow storm here earlier this year the sound of trees coming down and transformers blowing while in a cold dark house is a bit terrifying. Thankfully I was able to find the wine.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Repairs are ongoing all over the place. And we lost power again today, for about a half-hour.

Today I made my first long drive since the storm. Lots of dead traffic lights. There are trees down all over the place, and I can't believe how many of them missed the houses they stood next to! Kind of weird, IMO, they should have taken aim for people's bedrooms and such.

YC, I live in Los Angeles

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Doesn't sound like a fun experience; nonetheless, I would have loved to see the fireworks, IF I could have gotten the hell out and back to powered civilization when I was bored with them.

Glad you seem to have come through it with only minimal stress and distress.

 

[DVS]

The windstorm came through my area. it was quite an experience, being fairly warm, dry as dust and intermittent-- the air would be still, and we could hear the oncoming wind like a freight train getting closer untill it slammed into the tress and hillsides-- and houses. By 10:00 PM, we were experiencing intermittent power, which was really a spectacular sight when we looked across our little valley to the hillsides opposite us-- blocks of city lighting would wink in and out of existence. By midnight, we were without power, and the sky had more stars in it than Ive seen in quite a while-- would have been more showy if there had been less dust in the air!

And then the transformers started blowing up. Some of them lit up the whole sky. The ones I could see were green and blue sparks, and bits fluttering through the sky.

My power came back on about two hours ago. We conserved our cellphone batteries all day, read and talked by candlight last night-- and went to bed early. The phone lines just came back, and I now can check my email and such.

In my more proper Pop Eye voice, "well, blow me down. Eh, ca ca ca ca ca ca". You Califor-ny-ites have all the fun.

 

[DVS]

Doesn't sound like a fun experience; nonetheless, I would have loved to see the fireworks, IF I could have gotten the hell out and back to powered civilization when I was bored with them.

Glad you seem to have come through it with only minimal stress and distress.

When we had our infamous ice storm of 2002, a tree next to my house lost a large limb and it poked a nice, neat 8 inch hole in my roof. I had to get up on the roof to see if I could somehow plug the hole around the limb poking through, to stop the cold water from coming in.

The roof was covered with about 2 inches of wet ice and don't think that was a fun time sliding around up there. Once I got up and could lean against the tree on my roof, I relaxed a bit. I had to wait as the rags I had pushed into the hole froze to stop the dripping. I watched the freezing rain continue down and in the foggy mist of the night, I could see the blue green explosions in the distance as transformer after transformer exploded. Except for the cold and wet...oh and the hole in my roof, it was really a cool show. I never lost power that night, but my sister across town was without power for 14 days.

 

[Stella_Omega]

When we had our infamous ice storm of 2002, a tree next to my house lost a large limb and it poked a nice, neat 8 inch hole in my roof. I had to get up on the roof to see if I could somehow plug the hole around the limb poking through, to stop the cold water from coming in.

The roof was covered with about 2 inches of wet ice and don't think that was a fun time sliding around up there. Once I got up and could lean against the tree on my roof, I relaxed a bit. I had to wait as the rags I had pushed into the hole froze to stop the dripping. I watched the freezing rain continue down and in the foggy mist of the night, I could see the blue green explosions in the distance as transformer after transformer exploded. Except for the cold and wet...oh and the hole in my roof, it was really a cool show. I never lost power that night, but my sister across town was without power for 14 days.

Nice!

Every once in a while someone on my facebook says they've just gotten power back-- even today...

 

[Chaingun]

When we had four hurricanes come through Central Florida in 04, we dealt with this nuttiness every day. Someone was always saying they'd just got their power back, the traffic lights were always out, there were roads blocked by downed trees for days until crews could get to them, and everybody was picking up debris or sawing up broken trees.

Glad you're ok, Stella.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thanks, Chaingun! Most of the big stuff is gone, but there are still lots of uncleared piles of stuff. This morning i helped a neighbor get the last of her debris off her driveway... but I'm just driving over crushed up leaves and twigs on my own.

 

[satindesire]

I bet it was kinda fun to read by candles all night and do something different!

I had something similar happen to us, here in Muskogee a few years ago there was a REALLY BAD ice storm that wiped power out to I believe the entire city. Our apartment was central-heat-and-air so we got every candle in the house (even the emergency ones in the top of the closet) and played our own version of a text chose-your-adventure game that I wrote up for Mister.

The candles kept the bedroom warm and lit and we stayed up very late laughing and chatting.

The power was on when we woke up in the morning.

Even though it was kind of scary to have no power and heat in the middle of a very bad storm, the "Adventure" of it, the novelty of the candles and the notebook game (I still have it!) , made it fun.

I think it would be harder now that we have babies, because they LOVE to watch TV shows like Little Einsteins and they'd probably be sad if they missed it, but it's kind of nice to be kicked in the butt and made to do something completely different than your usual routine every once in a while.

I'm really glad you're okay gorgeous!

 

[nowgirl]

this isn't a strap on face fuck thread?

 

[Loverskitten]

It's so bad here!!!!!! Scary