Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is Ivan knocking on your doors?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:27:47 -0400
SW VA got hit hard in some places. We've been without power at our
house since 10:30 a.m. Friday a.m, Ivan arrived much quicker than had
been anticipated. Weather forecasts had predicted Saturday to Sunday
arrival for our area but the heavy rain arrived yesterday a.m. and we
were caught unprepared. WE didn't get the bathtub filled with water
before the power went out. Just came into my office in 'downtown' Floyd
where there is power to take a shower and run some errands, the last
update we had from Am. Elec. Power was we might have power in our
section of Floyd County by midnight. We'll see, two other deadlines
have come and gone, many fallen trees. Last night the Aladdin lamp
worked great but the chimney cracked again--after it had been on for 5
hours. It was room temp. when we lit the thing and we had the flame on
very low for the first half-hour to try to prevent cracking yet another
expensive chimney. The wind is still really whipping around but no rain
at the moment.
Lisa