[AT] ice storm

[Larry Goss]

You have my sympathy, Kevin.  We only lost power for five days, but the cleanup is going to take a long time.  I spent three days doing nothing but cutting up limbs so they are short enough to handle for carrying off from where they piled up under the trees.  We haven't even started cutting down the trees that are so damaged that they have to be taken out.  We may start that process during tomorrow's combination of rain and snow.  I think Marion, Kentucky, got hit about as bad as you.  We heard from friends near there after 11 days without power, but haven't heard from them since then.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: oldiron62 at gmail.com
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 20:56
Subject: [AT] ice storm
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> We just had electric back on, after it being off for 18 days. 
> The ice wind broke 90% of the elictric poles, and the trees are 
> a mess. The weather folk say this was the worse in recorded 
> history.  I am glad to be able to store the generator for 
> awhile. Most the folks around here are still out of electric 
> still. Them generators really like the gas, and the older gen we 
> started out. Just holds 3 quarts gas, so i hooked it up to a 3 
> gallon boat gas tank.  As it was with the little tank 
> keptme running cont duty refueling.
> So we heared that the local farm store just got a 100, 
> 6000watt  generators. So I was gone in a minute to get one 
> (chinesse crap)  being the only thing availible and it has 
> a 6.5 Gallon tank on it.
> If we had not been able find that they had them they would  
> have  been all sold the same day.
> Hope yall dont get it like we have had it the past 3 weeks.
> Tractor ref, I used the 560, 504, M  6 cyl tractors to 
> assist in cleanup, getting the trees off the fence.
> Below is link to some pics that I took with the old sony mavica 
> 3.5 floppy discs And they are not as good.
> 
> Kevin M
> 
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/bellville1/IceStorm20091#
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