*Tony -* ** *I'm glad it wasn't sent off list. There are many of us out here who are concerned about how you are doing, but have not * *sent you an email because we knew you would be flooded with them. Keep us informed. Your FAMILY needs to know.*
*-- Joe Fusco, Sr. Member of The Missouri Trout Fishermen's Association, The International Brotherhood of the Flymph and The Virtual Fly Box REMEMBER CANCER IS A WORD NOT A SENTENCE Reply to: jfusc...@gmail.com* On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Anthony Spezio <bambot...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Goofed again, > That reply was to be off list. > Tony > > --- On *Sat, 1/31/09, iain short <iainsh...@hotmail.com>* wrote: > > From: iain short <iainsh...@hotmail.com> > Subject: [VFB] Re: OT Ice Storm > To: "VFB-new" <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> > Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 12:06 PM > > Tony > At least you had a stove to heat food. > We haven't had a bad winter over here in the UK since the 70's, but as the > winter starts I always put aside a weeks worth of dried foods (don't go bad > in a power cut) Rice, Porridge oats, Pasta, Polenta flour, Dried milk, Dried > fruit and some cans of beans, soup etc. To make it a little more palatable > jars of honey, maple syrup and jam. Bottled water is always a good idea as > is a gas stove to cook. I like my comfort and have no wish to suffer a > survival situation when i can with a little forward planning merely have a > few days inconvenience. > Our cars and work van always have 24 hours food and water, blanket and a > waterproof poncho. In UK you are seldom able to get an hours walk from a > village or town but like I said I like comfort..... > iain > > 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 > > > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > > ------------------------------ > Beyond Hotmail - see what else you can do with Windows Live Find out > more!<http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
