are you ready for a storm?

well hurricane ike not only affected the gulf states, but it wreaked havoc on kentucky as well.

i currently still have no power, going on day 3 and have been told it could be 11 more days.

Lesson learned. in the next month, as soon as they are back in stock, i will be purchasing a generator that can run my entire house....one that will be wired up to my fuse box and will kick on automatically when there is a power outage.

First and foremost, my snakes are way too valuable to me. Second, being self employed, i have learned that even one day w/o access to my computer sets me back about a week.

I could care less if we never have another power outage again, but if so, i will be prepared.

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Originally Posted by redpython

well hurricane ike not only affected the gulf states, but it wreaked havoc on kentucky as well.

i currently still have no power, going on day 3 and have been told it could be 11 more days.

Lesson learned. in the next month, as soon as they are back in stock, i will be purchasing a generator that can run my entire house....one that will be wired up to my fuse box and will kick on automatically when there is a power outage.

First and foremost, my snakes are way too valuable to me. Second, being self employed, i have learned that even one day w/o access to my computer sets me back about a week.

I could care less if we never have another power outage again, but if so, i will be prepared.

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I have familiy in Kentucky as well, and they all had power returned except for my uncle. Who is still without. I find it odd that you 1200 miles away from galvoston and me only 30 miles away have no power, but I do.

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Originally Posted by stangs13

I have familiy in Kentucky as well, and they all had power returned except for my uncle. Who is still without. I find it odd that you 1200 miles away from Galveston and me only 30 miles away have no power, but I do.

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Thank you so much! LOL

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Thank you so much! LOL

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I deal with a lot of Texas cities and it stuck out like a sore thumb. :oops:

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

I deal with a lot of Texas cities and it stuck out like a sore thumb. :oops:

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that is the hardest city to spell for me.. and nachadoches!( spelled it wrong!) How come you deal with texas citys?

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Originally Posted by stangs13

that is the hardest city to spell for me.. and nachadoches!( spelled it wrong!) How come you deal with texas citys?

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Boy don't you know? You got a crap ton of trains running around down there! :gj:

My fave texas town so far is Waxahachie, LOL, because it's funny listening to people trying to pronounce it on the phone. :D

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Boy don't you know? You got a crap ton of trains running around down there! :gj:

My fave texas town so far is Waxahachie, LOL, because it's funny listening to people trying to pronounce it on the phone. :D

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I still dont know your job? lol. I can pronounce that..I think. :D

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I still dont know your job? lol. I can pronounce that..I think. :D

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Man... that one flew over your head now didn't it? :D

I work with rail cars silly boy. :P

I knew it had to do with trains..but ythere are a number of jobs in that field!:D

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I knew it had to do with trains..but ythere are a number of jobs in that field!:D

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Well, thats top secret information brother. ;) (and I aint lyin')

connie's company actually bought the technology from the japanese to create hurricanes.

I have family in Kentucky as well....I must have been in a barrel lately, cause I dont know what you all are talking about. a hurricane? I have family in Williamsburg, just off exit 11 on I75. should I be worried?

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I have family in Kentucky as well....I must have been in a barrel lately, cause I dont know what you all are talking about. a hurricane? I have family in Williamsburg, just off exit 11 on I75. should I be worried?

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I think he was just saying that he wasn't prepared for hurricane Ike that came through.

BTW, here are some amazing pictures of in incredibly destructive storm.

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connie's company actually bought the technology from the japanese to create hurricanes.

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LOL!!!!! nice! :rofl:

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Originally Posted by xdeus

I think he was just saying that he wasn't prepared for hurricane Ike that came through.

BTW, here are some amazing pictures of in incredibly destructive storm.

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hurricane ike?? sheesh where have I been? what happened?

Not to go off-topic, but I was really disappointed with this post. I'm expecting the title to be a clever intro for something to do with reptiles, and come to find out it's about an actual storm. :rage:

Now to get back on-topic, in-line generators are great. That's gonna be one of the first improvements I make when I finally get around to buying a house. :gj:

There were outages in Ohio as well, about 2 million people had no power and 500,000 in the Cincinnati area alone. Our power came back two nights ago but there are people who are supposed to not have power for a week or something.

It was really weird to see a tree pulled out of the ground from all the wind

A tornado touched down 1/2 mile away from me 4 days ago and ripped the roof off 2 apartment bldgs and uprooted large trees and tumbled some parked cars into a pile but caused no damage here. I've got a 5500 watt Makita generator,1500 Coleman generator and a 500 watt Honda 2 cycle generator for emergencies and a 50' an 8 gauge wire extension cord that I made.