oh what a weekend

so this thursday me and my brother were driving home from school and the weather was starting to get bad, but it was not too bad. the next morning we woke up to a snow day, but also to no power. after a couple of hours i decided to bring the reptiles up from the basement and put them by the fire, and i was able to keep them around 70-80 degrees. but i cant exactly move a turtle pond out of the basement. so spent my weekend boiling water for the turtle pond to keep the temp up and trying to stay warm my self. i just regained power about an hour ago.you guys may have heard new england was hit with a huge ice storm causing over a million homes to loose power, and i live in maine.

Wow! Sounds intense. How nice of you to boil water for the turtles, not all people would be so considerate!

I'm in NH and have had no power since Friday, we're running on a generator now. I moved my bp and leos next to the wood stove, and had to throw blankets over and pour hot water into my fish tanks the whole first day/night. We were able to borrow a generator Saturday so everything is running smoothly now. I lost one fish out of this ordeal, my tank in the basement dropped down to 64 and I couldn't really do anything to keep it up. I hope power comes back soon, this is nuts!

wow guys... that sounds really rough for you guys... it seems like you guys are on top of this and all the animals are gonna be ok. I just want to wish you guys luck on getting warm. Thank god i'm in california

Yeah I'm in NH and we just (like an hour ago) got our power back. I had all the balls in tubs sitting near the furnace in my parents room to try and keep them around 75-80 degrees. We've got a generator but it's too unreliable and I didn't want to keep them in the rack if the power was flickering on and off all day, plus we didn't keep it on at night.

That was definitely one crazy ice storm! The top of a tree fell on the power lines right outside our house and snapped the top of the telephone pole off, I guess they just got out today to get it fixed because we had wires sitting all over the road.

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Originally Posted by skaplan86

wow guys... that sounds really rough for you guys... it seems like you guys are on top of this and all the animals are gonna be ok. I just want to wish you guys luck on getting warm. Thank god i'm in california

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Yeah, be thankful. Get this, one of my buddies had the river behind his house flood during the ice storm from all the rain, flood his basement and it killed almost every one of his herps (he had hundreds of them). He tried to save them but no dice. He's been breeding dragons, monitors, tegus, geckoes, snakes, all sorts of herps for YEARS and he says there is no way that he could ever recover from this.

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Originally Posted by anendeloflorien

Yeah, be thankful. Get this, one of my buddies had the river behind his house flood during the ice storm from all the rain, flood his basement and it killed almost every one of his herps (he had hundreds of them). He tried to save them but no dice. He's been breeding dragons, monitors, tegus, geckoes, snakes, all sorts of herps for YEARS and he says there is no way that he could ever recover from this.

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That must be every herpers worst nightmare... :(

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That must be every herpers worst nightmare... :(

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Oh totally, he was working with animals that hardly anybody out there keeps and he was able to get them to absolutely flourish in captivity. Really sad because even though he's never going to be out of the hobby completely there were a lot of entirely irreplaceable animals in his collection. :tears: