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electrondady1
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Posted: 01:22pm 22 Dec 2013

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lots of damage
1/4 million with out power
http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/icestorm.jpg?w= 940&h=705
but fun is fun

Edited by electrondady1 2013-12-23

raymond thomson

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Posted: 06:09am 23 Dec 2013

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Wow! Really puts things in perspective, I shant whinge again. Good luck mate.
Raymond

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Posted: 07:19pm 24 Dec 2013

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electrondaddy1

Been there, done that -- three weeks ago. Texas got the worst ice storm since 1981; it stopped everything for about 3 days and naturally "pruned" several of my large trees!

Fortunately all my hose bibs are fed from isolation valves WITHIN my house.

Here's a tree, which has broken under the weight of ice and plunged
through the side of my front house! It took out a window!

If this keeps up, I'm stocking up on snowcone syrup!

. . . . . Mac

Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas

electrondady1
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Posted: 04:33am 29 Dec 2013

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i drove down to my sisters place for Christmas dinner.
i have never seen so much damage.
even after a week i saw a dozen power poles sheared off at ground level
and the cables laying on the ground
thousands of trees came down on houses and cars.
over a million people were with out power.
4 people have died from carbon monoxide trying to keep warm.
hydro workers have been working for over a week to make repairs

many thanks to the repairs crews that came over the boarder from Michigan to help.

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