As most of you know we had a bad ice storm here in Arkansas.
We were lucky to only be out of power for just four days. By that I mean we
were not to get power for another week or so but a bit of luck came out way.
There was not a room to be found in our whole area for the out of state crews
that came in to work. The resort down the road offered to put up as many as
they could if they had power. They got power to them and we are on the same
line so we got power too after four days. We are total electric so we had no
heat, water,or lights. The garage door was frozen shut so we could not get the
van out. We live on a one lane road that is not plowed so even if we could get
the van out we would not be able to get to town. All power in town was out too.
Those that have been here know about the hill. The one mile steep hill was
totally iced over and blocked by fallen trees and big limbs. It took a crew of
locals and farm hands 12 hours to get it open but there was still the ice
problem as far as getting to town. Temps went down to 18*F two nights, we had
10 candles and an oil lamp burning in the living room for heat.Spent the four
days in winter outside clothes, even
slept in them.No comment on the toilet. Luckily we had a one burner Colman
camping stove and bottled water to make hot chocolate and warm cans of soup. We
managed but I hope we will not have to do that again. We finally got out
yesterday and could not believe the damage done
It looks like a war zone and like about 20 tornadoes went through. Roads
blocked with trees down, loads of branches down every where. Broken power poles
and wires down. No stop lights working. Walmart was working on half power but
most of the shelves for candles, oil lamps, bread, milk camping stoves,
blankets and a lot of other stuff was clean.It may be two weeks or more before
all power is restored
We lost all the food in the freezer and refrigerator
Arkansas Tony
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