"Iceghanistan"
This past week has been really tough for many of us in the midlands of South Carolina. I know there are many team mates that live in the cold north and are use to the snow and cold. Well mother nature dealt us a hefty hand of ice last week. To the tune of 1.5" in some locations. Just over an inch at my house. Major power outages occurred and 5 days later, many still do not have power. I do have power at home now thankfully. My poultry farm, however, does not. It's running on a 150KW standby generator that burns about 3.6 gallons of diesel per hour. We stand at 123 hrs right now...yep, its getting rather expensive at this point. We get our power from an electric co-op and essentially, we are on the end of their lines and they have to work towards us. I feel bad as most of my friends and neighbors just a short mile away, still have no power. It looks like a war zone around here with all the debris from the storm.
I did manage to muster the mojo to run last night, the first since Tuesday. Warmer temps this week so I hope to get outside on my bike this week and get my wko's done.
Comments
The weather has certainly been crazy this winter!
Out here in CA we have about the opposite going on. We're regularly seeing temps that we don't see until May or June. On Saturday I rode my big motorcycle (think 500lb dirtbike) on dirt roads all the up to just behind the ski area at Big Bear. No snow, just a little ice, a couple puddles, etc.
We are in record drought, no signs of letting up, and the agriculture sector in the central valley ($$$$$$$$$$$$ business) is just getting hammered. California and the western US are about to have some very touch choices forced upon them.
Jamie, I am from the north, but I still feel for you. in 1996 we had an ice storm and the entire top of New York state was without power for a month. There were a lot of dairy farms that lost their entire herd. We have all the equipment to move snow, but ice is a different story everywhere. Once the power starts going it becomes a huge problem. Good luck.
2006 I commuted to work on my bike all the way until Jan 3rd, 2007. Then it started to snow. We received around 20 feat of snow in two weeks. That was a bad winter. It was just snow though. We didn't have power outages.
Hopefully the power has returned or comes back on soon. For me cold and snow is fine. I really don't like spring/fall freezing rain and ice.
Gordon