Life without Trains forums!!!

[Granny74]

Life without the trains forums is no fun! [:(] I got a call from Cherokee Woman today and she told me that she and Locomutt have had no electricity since last night about 9:00 P.M. when storms went through their area. They are missing the forums and all of you friends! It just isn't the same without messages from you all! We felt the same way when both of our computers were out. She wanted me to tell you all hi from them.
How's the weather where you are?
Here in our part of AZ, it is DRY and windy. We could use some of that rain--as usual!
Nance and Bob from AZ

[louisnash]

Hey Nance and Bob,

I am glad to hear they are OK.

I emailed them last night to see if things were OK or not. I figured something was up because I always get mail from them daily and I had nothing last night or nothing at all today. The tornado that hit the town of Eminence KY is pretty much right in the middle of us and Cherokee Woman. It was a heck of a storm. That town suffered a lot of damage. We really got lucky that when it got close to our area that the main area of concern went towards the Lexington KY area. They kept saying on the Cincy news that we were next then, boom, it went south. Lexington got some serious damage as well in parts. There was an area east of Cincinnati in Ohio that also had a tornado.

I had my scanner on during the storm and the railroads were telling the crews to be on the lookout for downed trees or anything that could cause them harm. The storm that went through Locomutt and Cherokee Woman's area is one of the worst that I have seen. I had things packed and the boys ready to go to the neighbors basement. I have never had to do that since I have lived where we are at now. It was that bad.

Today, Friday, it has been partly cloudy and very cool all day. The only thing we have to contend with now is all these cicadas. They will soon be gone for another 17 years. But, they are calling for more storms on Sunday and Monday in the Greater Cincinnati area. Just what we don't need right now.

Thanks for all the info. It's much appreciated.
Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

Wow, things really sound like they are a mess over there....

I saw a PGA golf tournament got delayed because the creek running through the course overflowed, the whole course was flooded!

Hope everyone is ok.

[Anonymous]

Glad to hear that everyone is ok.

So far all we have had is rain. It has been heavy at times and some wind too but nothing damaged that I know of anyway.

Everyone take care and be careful.

[JoeKoh]

Same thing up here in NW ohio. lots of wind and rain.hard to keep up with the grass growing.about went to get a hay baler.As Brian said more rain for us too coming Sunday night to Monday.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Hope you guys are ok down there.
Im expecting very powerful thunderstorms tonight around here so don't feel bad,good luck and stay safe.BNSFfan.

[cherokee woman]

WE'RE BAACKK!!

It's now 7:54 eastern time, and we've had electricity back for almost 10 minutes!! After about 45 1/2 hours without power. Good thing we had fresh batteries for flash lights and radios. Couldn't even watch our REDS play [:(]

Thank you all for your concern. I have a cousin and her husband who live in Eminence,
plus locomutt has family in that general area also. Thank God they are all right, and weren't hurt. My cousin lives in Eminence proper, and according to the NWS, most of the damage in the town proper was straight line winds, but on the outskirts was where they had the tornado.

And it just barely missed my neice and her family in LaGrange, KY.

Guess that's about it, so everyone take care, and it SURE IS GOOD TO BE BACK ON THE FORUM!!

Thanks again,

cherokee woman & locomutt

[Willy2]

I'm glad to hear that things are getting back to normal down there. I'm glad nobody was hurt and I hope that your time without the forums was not too bad.

Willy

[dave9999]

Glad y'all (southern for "you all" )are okay. Your situation sounds a lot like our
hurricanes. Power outages of a week have happened in the past. I guess that one day
the power companies will learn that underground cables would solve this problem.
But until then, we continue to store batteries for the next hurricane season.
Good luck. Dave

[locomutt]

It may have only been 2 days without power,BUT IT SEEMED LIKE 2 WEEKS!

Losing power may be an inconvenience,but at least no injuries REPORTED
in our local area. We have minimal damage from this entire week,lost 2 BIG
limbs from our oak tree,took out 2 sections of privacy fence,loss of power,
spoiled food from fridge & freezer;but it could have been much worse.
Some people have lost their homes and had to find other lodging,at least
we got to stay here and pioneer it.

Again,THANK YOU ALL FOR THE CONCERN.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

Glad y'all (southern for "you all" )are okay. Your situation sounds a lot like our
hurricanes. Power outages of a week have happened in the past. I guess that one day
the power companies will learn that underground cables would solve this problem.
But until then, we continue to store batteries for the next hurricane season.
Good luck. Dave

Alas - burying miles and miles of electric and phone gets pretty expensive. It's six miles from my house to the nearest substation, and most of it is solid limestone, often at the surface - very slow going, and a pain to install new services.... We replaced around 10,000 poles in the aftermath of Ice Storm '98. I'm sure it was far cheaper to replace the poles than to do all of the trenching...

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

Glad y'all (southern for "you all" )are okay. Your situation sounds a lot like our
hurricanes. Power outages of a week have happened in the past. I guess that one day
the power companies will learn that underground cables would solve this problem.
But until then, we continue to store batteries for the next hurricane season.
Good luck. Dave

Alas - burying miles and miles of electric and phone gets pretty expensive. It's six miles from my house to the nearest substation, and most of it is solid limestone, often at the surface - very slow going, and a pain to install new services.... We replaced around 10,000 poles in the aftermath of Ice Storm '98. I'm sure it was far cheaper to replace the poles than to do all of the trenching...

True.
All of the new construction develoments around here are going with underground utilities. Kinda "nipping it in the bud" so to speak. We dont have a lot of hard ground in Florida, so it's not a big issue with new construcion, but it would get
costly with existing lines. Although I would like to see them do a little at a time,
and eventually they could get them all buried. They have already replaced all
of the traffic lights and put them on "hurricane proof" poles that extend out over
the streets. But with overhead power lines, the lights will still be there, but won't
have any power to operate.

Anyway, as locomut said, injuries and deaths are the main concern after a tragedy, and my prayers go out to everyone involved.
Dave

[adrianspeeder]

I love my emergency generator. Out here in the sticks, we are the last ones to get fixed. Either after a storm or some idiot trucker takes out poles on Rt. 441. The sweet sound of a diesel while every one else is dark puts a smile on my face.

Adrianspeeder

[Train Guy 3]

It would be hard, very hard to live without the Trains forums but I deffinatly couldn't live without trains.com .