A tree fell and I want to ride on it (in a completely non-sexual way) through the water that has now risen.
A tree fell and I want to ride on it (in a completely non-sexual way) through the water that has now risen.
Our power was out for about a week about 10 years ago in a big snowstorm we had here
I was without power for 20 minutes earlier today. First time it's happened in years!
I always have my hamster to run on the wheel to generate power in case such things happens.
He is so useful at times like this!
when it happened to us i took my psx next door to my grandparents house to play, ff8 and the generator that they had at the time sent a surge of electricity throughout the house which blew out every tv, and my psx. I could still play it but after 30 min it would start smoking and cut off. If that did not happen then i would not of gotten a ps2 for christmas, haha.
I've never been without power for more than a day or so. We're allegedly in the middle of it here, and so far all is relatively quiet; only gusts of wind and the rain has lessened. A lot of my law school friends who stayed in the area lost power earlier today, so I am laughing at them and enjoying my four day weekend at home.
We lost power at work last week because a transformer went out or something so the entire street was out of power. No traffic lights or anything.
They let us go early since we couldn't do anything, which would have been a lot more exciting if I wasn't twenty minutes away from the end of my shift anyway.
Oh yeah. That happened during a nasty storm at the restaurant once. The lights went out at, like, 10.30. We had to rush everybody to pay because the back-up power only allowed us, like, 8 minutes to use the credit card machines and the POS units. All the servers were going crazy trying to handle their checks. People were escreaming. The manager was flying off her rocker trying to override stuff. Nobody had flashlights and everybody was using phones to see in the pitch black kitchen. For some reason, all the customers were kinda content, all like, "Lights out. How romantic! Let's casually finish dinner and then have a peaceful moonlight ride home."
What a night. We ended up staying way late because we had to calculate all or sales by hand before the end of the night. Nobody had a calculator. We were servers, you know, not the smartest species of human on the planet, so everything was messed up.
It almost provides evidence that restaurants shouldn't open during tropical storms, but you know what's more important than time? Money. Time is money. Bees make honey. And clowns are funny.
Well now you're just objectively wrong. Clowns are creepy and scary mothersmurfers.Originally Posted by Martyr
But that was the conclusion to my entire post.Well now you're just objectively wrong. Clowns are creepy and scary mothersmurfers.
Now everything I've said is totally wrong.
Well I guess now you just have to go back and rethink everything you just said.
streme Wheelie
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When the power goes out, I curl up into a ball and weep until I pass out. Then when I wake up, the power is usually back. If not, rinse and repeat.
Back in 2000, Oklahoma had a terrible, terrible winter. Everything froze solid, entire trees were encased in ice, their tops literally touching the ground. It was all horrifyingly beautiful. A very large tree right beside my mother's house is still nearly touching the ground, it never really recovered from that storm's effects. I recall weeks later when everything thawed, you could go outside and it sounded like a warzone, with trees breaking everywhere in all directions non-stop.
We were out of power for a good 36 hours. It sucked so bad. But fortunately our telephone, water and gas somehow managed to work without incident. There were other people in the area who lost all of those, some for weeks. Many local businesses actually began giving food away because it was all going to go bad due to such a long lack of refrigeration.
I really hate mother nature at times.
I like Kung-Fu.
Semi-funny story. A tree fell on my neighbor's house last Saturday. Since she is belligerent and ghetto she went outside barefoot with a white tank on yelling about how the cops were "discriminating her" because they went to evacuate people out of an old folks home that was experiencing heavy flooding before they helped her. "Y'all inscriminating! Y'all inscriminating!" Then her son decided it would be a good idea to park his car on the lawn and it sunk right down. We spent most of the day trying to get it out. I just...ugh. "Y'all inscriminating!"
You still helped them? You're a saint.
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