Rest assured that Detroit Edison has done its share for corporate greed and ineptitude on this side of the state. We have friends who are being told maybe on Wednesday. And there's another ice storm coming tomorrow.
Love to you and all of yours. Thanks for all the rainbows. 🌈
The way that capitalism fails almost all of us is disgusting and so cruel. I'm glad that you and yours are safe at least right now. Please stay warm if you can.
Been following along on Masto, glad to hear you’ve got power back on. Didn’t wanna add pressure by asking after you’all as you know, but was worried for you folks. I have lived through assorted multi day power outages (including the ice storm of ‘98 that blacked out all of Quebec and huge chunks of Ottawa for weeks and didn’t get fully restored for over a month) but was lucky enough to be in an urban environment those times, which was rough enough. I’m relieved to hear you all made it through. What you have built is obviously a thing of beauty and you should all take pride in having weathered such a trial and come through safely and relatively healthy.
I'm extremely grateful to have everyone here, even the cats, even if we do sometimes get on each other's nerves.
Several years ago (five? six?) we had a very bad blizzard here in Michigan that shut everything down and I was living in the capital city at that point so, YIKES. Almost everyone's power was out and it lasted so long I can't recall how many days it was. People were barred from driving on the roads at all for any reason unless they were driving a snowplow or a salt truck. It blows my mind how underprepared the government keeps itself.
In fairness to any government, some things just can’t be planned for. The great ice storm of ‘98 took out most of the eastern seaboard as well as a couple of US states. We were without power for weeks in the middle of a brutal cold snap. It’s a miracle only thirty or so people died as a direct result of it. Personally, me and my general band of friends did pretty well. I had like 9 people or so living with me in my little 1 bedroom apt because I had gas-fire heating and the pipes hadn’t been affected. My mom organized her entire apartment building moving food into outdoor staging areas to stay fresh in the cold, setting up a building-wide soup kitchen powered by propane etc.. it was crazy times.
It is nice to see how communities will come together to take care of each other like that. I don't remember that ice storm and I'm not sure why, but I do recall the one from either early '92 or '93. But we had a wood furnace for heat with propane backup, so I may not have noticed if our power went out, since I was a teenager and probably not paying attention to it.
Yep I feel this, we were without for a week as well. And several of our backup systems failed. It was a very cold week! I'm determined not to be caught so flat footed again.
It sure is difficult to prepare for systemic failure. I hope that y'all are able to strengthen your backups so that you don't have to have that experience again. <3
Rest assured that Detroit Edison has done its share for corporate greed and ineptitude on this side of the state. We have friends who are being told maybe on Wednesday. And there's another ice storm coming tomorrow.
Love to you and all of yours. Thanks for all the rainbows. 🌈
The way that capitalism fails almost all of us is disgusting and so cruel. I'm glad that you and yours are safe at least right now. Please stay warm if you can.
Been following along on Masto, glad to hear you’ve got power back on. Didn’t wanna add pressure by asking after you’all as you know, but was worried for you folks. I have lived through assorted multi day power outages (including the ice storm of ‘98 that blacked out all of Quebec and huge chunks of Ottawa for weeks and didn’t get fully restored for over a month) but was lucky enough to be in an urban environment those times, which was rough enough. I’m relieved to hear you all made it through. What you have built is obviously a thing of beauty and you should all take pride in having weathered such a trial and come through safely and relatively healthy.
I'm extremely grateful to have everyone here, even the cats, even if we do sometimes get on each other's nerves.
Several years ago (five? six?) we had a very bad blizzard here in Michigan that shut everything down and I was living in the capital city at that point so, YIKES. Almost everyone's power was out and it lasted so long I can't recall how many days it was. People were barred from driving on the roads at all for any reason unless they were driving a snowplow or a salt truck. It blows my mind how underprepared the government keeps itself.
In fairness to any government, some things just can’t be planned for. The great ice storm of ‘98 took out most of the eastern seaboard as well as a couple of US states. We were without power for weeks in the middle of a brutal cold snap. It’s a miracle only thirty or so people died as a direct result of it. Personally, me and my general band of friends did pretty well. I had like 9 people or so living with me in my little 1 bedroom apt because I had gas-fire heating and the pipes hadn’t been affected. My mom organized her entire apartment building moving food into outdoor staging areas to stay fresh in the cold, setting up a building-wide soup kitchen powered by propane etc.. it was crazy times.
It is nice to see how communities will come together to take care of each other like that. I don't remember that ice storm and I'm not sure why, but I do recall the one from either early '92 or '93. But we had a wood furnace for heat with propane backup, so I may not have noticed if our power went out, since I was a teenager and probably not paying attention to it.
Yep I feel this, we were without for a week as well. And several of our backup systems failed. It was a very cold week! I'm determined not to be caught so flat footed again.
It sure is difficult to prepare for systemic failure. I hope that y'all are able to strengthen your backups so that you don't have to have that experience again. <3