Oh, it wasn't that bad. We fired up a generator to run the oven, the refrigerator, and a lamp. The kitchen stove is propane so the top burners work for cooking, but electricity is needed to make the oven perform. All in all it was quite a nasty little blizzard. Today turned out fairly nice though the wind continued to blow. The temperature made it up to the mid-thirties this afternoon. Right now it is still 27 degrees.Soap, ya need a good woodstove! We all have one in this country. The only thing less dependable than the power company is the phone idiots. When the wind blows or it rains or snow a little we usually lose both. To those companies we are 300 ranchers at the end of the line. We get very little "maintanance" on the high wires or the telegraph!Soapweed said:We ended up with six tenths of an inch of rain, about five inches of snow if it would have stayed on the level (which it didn't :roll: ), and a very powerful wind. The steady wind was probably fifty miles per hour with gusts exceeding sixty. The electricity went off about 9 p.m. Wednesday evening and didn't come back on until 9 o'clock this morning, so we had a 36-hour chilly spell freezing to death in the dark.
Heck i type this thanks to the pony express! :wink: Although your firewood supply may be a tad bit smaller than ours!leanin' H said:Soap, ya need a good woodstove! We all have one in this country. The only thing less dependable than the power company is the phone idiots. When the wind blows or it rains or snow a little we usually lose both. To those companies we are 300 ranchers at the end of the line. We get very little "maintanance" on the high wires or the telegraph!Soapweed said:We ended up with six tenths of an inch of rain, about five inches of snow if it would have stayed on the level (which it didn't :roll: ), and a very powerful wind. The steady wind was probably fifty miles per hour with gusts exceeding sixty. The electricity went off about 9 p.m. Wednesday evening and didn't come back on until 9 o'clock this morning, so we had a 36-hour chilly spell freezing to death in the dark.
Big Swede said:We had it pretty tough here but at least we didn't ever lose power. Neighbors and friends 20 miles north and west had over a foot of snow and some will be out of power for 10 days or 2 weeks. Most of my cows went on an 8 mile hike down the highway. Took 3 days to get everything back home. Still have some of the neighbors cattle. Irrigated corn fields are a mess, at least 200 yards of drifts covering the edges. I got a little over half done before it hit. My neighbors have 1000 acres left to do. Lots of long faces around here. Oh well we'll get through it, kind of a character builder.
