Stinky struggling to survive the power outage

[JakeStyle]

Star Member Stinky The Clown (46,576 posts)

A taste of third world living
We are among the one million power customers in the Mid Atlantic sweltering through a heat wave made worse by a power outage. Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.

The rest of us sit and swelter.

Traffic lights don't work. Drivers are either uncertain and crawling through intersections or dangerously speeding through as if it is their birthright.

The capriciousness of it all is amazing. The little 7-11 has power from the grid while the big supermarket next door is dark. A restaurant has his big billboard sized LED sign ablaze, telling all who pass that he is open (and hopin') for business. A man I know to be foreign born sits at the open door to his gas station's garage bay, sweating in the oppressive heat, with a sign saying his pumps don't work but he will tune your car up for half price, today only.

Freezers full of food are imperiled as we are reduced to cooking outdoors on coals or heating up our houses to blast furnace level as we are lighting stoves with matches.

The dry ice plants that we normally rely on at times like these to help keep our precious frozen food frozen are selling out their stocks, but have no power to make more.

My iPhone, rechargeable in the car, is the new millennium version of a transistor radio. The local all news radio station just announced that the driver called and said he'd just delivered a full truckload of ice to one of the local supermarkets.

I sit here in a bit of a hole between cell towers, writing this on my iPad, knowing I have to drive a bit to get it to connect . . . . . or wait a looooong time for it to go through.

We went to five gas stations earlier today and never did get any gas. Four had no power and the fifth had no gas. Good thing Sparkly's new car gets good mileage. That quarter tank ought to last a while, even as we go driving just to cool off and charge our electrical gadgets.

There's no looting . . . . . so far. I am sure, given the unbearable heat and the extreme boredom, that will happen, too.

People always pull together at times like these.

Until they don't.

I think the looting point is a few days away right now. But it will come. It always does in third world countries.

How'd you like to be the guy in the power company truck, driving through and assessing damage, but not stopping to fix things yet? You think he'll be popular as he drives through, with no answers for you?

So here we sit, a day's buggy ride from the nation's Capitol, with no power, low fuel, high heat, and reduced to cooking on fires, not for fun, but of necessity.

And no one can tell us when it might end.

A million power customers, probably four million people, sitting outside, in the unrelenting heat, just trying to get by.

In what seems just like a third world country.

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[Bad Dog]

Welcome to Obamaville stinky.

[USA4ME]

Stinky The Clown

Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.

 

Guess some dolt should have thought about that in advance.  But there we go with that "thinking and liberals not having anything in common" thingy that keeps popping up.

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[Airwolf]

Let me know when it hits 120+ and your outside working in it. You haven't seen hot till you had some time in the desert jackoff.

[Freeper]

Guess some dolt should have thought about that in advance.  But there we go with that "thinking and liberals not having anything in common" thingy that keeps popping up.

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He's missing the bright side of all this, his carbon footprint decreases every day he doesn't have power.

[Airwolf]

Welcome to Obamaville stinky.

Wasting away in Obamaville
Looking for my lostshaker of salt
Some people plain there's no one to blame
But I think It's Obamas fault.

[Freeper]

Wasting away in Obamaville
Looking for my lostshaker of salt
Some people claim there's no one to blame
But I think It's Bush's fault.

Slight fix. 

[Bad Dog]

Let me know when it hits 120+ and your outside working in it. You haven't seen hot till you had some time in the desert jackoff.

Stinky wants to know if he could just go outside.  He's not really down with that "work" shit.

[Airwolf]

Stinky wants to know if he could just go outside.  He's not really down with that "work" shit.

As long as it's in front of a bus I'd be ok with that.

[whiffleball]

Gee, StinkDude, hard luck, eh?  At least it should be cooler there in your basement.  Wasting amps posting at the DUmp ain't too bright, either.

Typical liberal - unprepared, looking for someone else to save him. 

[sybilll]

You sniveling entitled bastard.  I suspect a starving girl in Somalia would tell you to take your iPad and iPhone and shove them straight up your fat, hot ass.  

[BattleHymn]

Was he writing about a power outage, or what it would be like after a second term of Obumbles?  I'm confused. 

[Carl]

What a effing crybaby. 

[diesel driver]

Hey, stinkdude!

Camping World has Champion 4000 watt generators on sale for $299.  I got one for my camper last year, when they were $250.

You should have gotten you one, too!       Boy Scout motto, dude.  "Be Prepared".

BTW, stop whining about "the neighbors" not sharing a "few amps" with you.  It's not their job to "take care" of your worthless ass, it YOUR job to take care of YOUR worthless ass.  They planned ahead, you didn't.  It wasn't raining when Noah started building the ark.

Suck on it. dude!

[Texacon]

LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.

KC

[Evil_Conservative]

You have an iPhone AND an iPad?  Stupid 1%-er.

[Bad Dog]

Hope he saves a few amps to call ABM to come save him.

[diesel driver]

LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.

KC

From his pre-school whining, I don't think he's been thru a damned thing since he left his mother's womb.  

[jtyangel]

Star Member Stinky The Clown (46,576 posts)

A taste of third world living
We are among the one million power customers in the Mid Atlantic sweltering through a heat wave made worse by a power outage. Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.

  I could only get this far. Typical liberal thinking: they didn't give me their shit! And this guy is well off too. How do you know they didn't give any to anyone else? I know plenty of people who offered their homes to relatives and friends(which apparently you aren't one to your neighbors and one has to wonder why ). That aside, perhaps if YOUR president didn't have gas prices still sitting in the 3's with his policies, perhaps people would be more willing to share those amps with you while the fuel is chugged away by that generator. Reap what you sew dummie. I wonder if stinky has offered any of his defrosting meat to feed anyone else in his neighborhood. My bet is he'll let it rot instead of sharing.


Oh and we endured the heat too. It sucked for a while, but we would have survived. what I reminded the kids(and myself) is that people lived in this for 200 years in our state before our outage happened. We would make due. The key I've found is the air circulates better outside. Get in the shade and take out some hand made paper fans and sit with a drink and just don't do a lot of anything. Pop a tent if you need to at night since it's going to be cooler outside then in. Again, stay hydrated.

How'd you like to be the guy in the power company truck, driving through and assessing damage, but not stopping to fix things yet? You think he'll be popular as he drives through, with no answers for you

If that's true, then you are already a foolish, 3rd world mob. Most civilized people understand bombs haven't been dropped and things will be restored in a few days. Crimini, I went through a florida hurricane where we had nothing for a week or more. Amazing I'm still hear to talk about it. 

[andhe78]

What a jackass. 

To answer your question, I've been the guy in the power truck or the arborist that the power guys are waiting on to clear the lines so they can repair them.  In my experience over fifteen years and a dozen or more serious storms, people understand, they are helpful, and they will go out of their way to make things easier for us.  They understand that we are doing the best we can and I've seen and experienced very little anger between the customers and the power company during a storm emergency.  It's more often the case that the customer will throw us their firstborn daughter because they are so happy to see us.   (And I've worked storms where people were out of power for a month in freezing temps.  Look up canada, '98.  Start complaining after your third week without power, you've experienced nothing yet.)

Only a liberal would react negatively to someone doing their jobs. 

And what are you doing driving around anyway, stupid lookey loo, scoping out places to loot? 

[JohnnyReb]

LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.

KC

1989 hurricane Hugo...went 3 weeks without power and bitched less than Stinky is doing over what, 24 hours.

First night after wasn't bad but then I loaned my welder/generator to 2 families that were worse off than I. There were older, sickly, had freezers full of food and no water(wells). Still managed to stay clean and work everyday.

[Vagabond]

Hey Stinky,

Try Florida after a hurricane.  It's always easy to distinguish betweeen native Floridians and damn yankees.

[VivisMom]

Stinkass needs to STFU.

Boo-effing-hoo, you don't have power. Neither do hundreds of thousands of other people in the area, and they seem to be surviving just fine. Many are at the malls and movies, and the counties have set up cooling centers where you can go, get a shower, get out of the heat. Instead, you bitch about not being able to find any gas for your car as you drive around to charge your expensive gadgets. I'm sure you live near the mall in Columbia, why don't you go there instead of bitching about how horrible your life is? Pansy.

[Ballygrl]

A generator is something that we really need to get, I keep saying it and I keep putting it off, but I really need to go out and just buy 1. The only thing though, if he could afford an IPAD he could afford a generator, maybe the neighbors who have generators chose to buy that instead of an IPAD?

[Ballygrl]

You sniveling entitled bastard.  I suspect a starving girl in Somalia would tell you to take your iPad and iPhone and shove them straight up your fat, hot ass.

You keep that attitude up missy and he'll start posting about you