How did you find Bully-Board.com?

[Dave]

Yeah I hate irregular winters! Once, we had a giant snowstorm in early October. Heavy snow on leaves that are still on the trees = huge disaster.

[T-Bone]

That happened to us in 06. School was canceled for like 4 days.

[Dave]

Yeah it was pretty cool. Except the part where there was no power for a week.

Weird, it was '06 for us too.

[T-Bone]

Oh that sucks. I also have a power generator for that reason.

[Dave]

We had to drive about an hour away to get one. (There were none left anywhere close to where we live) Waited in a department store for 12 hours for the next truck shipment to get there.

[T-Bone]

At least they had electricity.

[Dave]

The electricity in the store doesn't make up for the fact that we had to wait in line for literally 12 hours! If you weren't there and in line, you didn't get one the next time a truck shipment got in.

[T-Bone]

Did you sleep???

[Dave]

Nope. We got there maybe 10am. So we were outta there by 10pm. There were restaurants around, so my family ate in groups to maintain our spot in line.

[T-Bone]

Makes sense.

[Mike_W]

We had a huge ice storm in December '08.

Here's the timeline:

Thursday night, Dec. 11th:  Storm starts, we lose cable at about 8:00 PM and lose power at about 1:00 Am on Friday.

Friday, Dec. 12th:  Wake up to find power is out.  Basement floods, we start bailing water all day.  In the afternoon my dad and I went out to find a generator but all stores are fresh out.  We drive all the way to Boston and back and don't find one.  That night we drive all the way to Providence and back, still can't get one.

Saturday, Dec. 13th: Coldest day of event.  Temps at night went down to 10 degrees and we had no power, food spoiled in the fridge and there was nowhere to get more food except from far out of the area.

Sunday, Dec. 14: We get a generator from my aunt and Uncle who found one in CT.  We plug it into the fridge, pumps in basement and a lamp. Temp. in house is about 32 degrees.

Monday, Dec. 15: Unusually warm day.  It was about 50 outside, I spent more time outside where it was actually warmer!

Tuesday, Dec. 16: Cold comes back and it snows.  We had Mc Donalds pancakes for breakfast.

Wednesday, Dec. 17: It snows some more and we are starting to get really pissed off.

Thursday, Dec. 18th: Cold outside, sat on my ass all day, boring as hell.

Friday, Dec. 19th: Big-Ass snowstorm, power finally comes back on in the evening.

And there you have my quick little diary of my trip through hell and back.

[Crazy Snake]

Where do you all live? Last time I had a snow storm that knocked the power out was back in 1996. Last few years has been kind of bad, but still haven't lost any power due to it.

[T-Bone]

Haha. I have a fireplace in the house(a real one). And I always have about 3000 pounds of wood and that is my heat for the winter.

[Junkie Mater]

There is zero snow in Indonesia, but when I was 6 I am a forced labor by the Japanese and it's so fucking cold, but thanks for my greater strength I enrolled into conscription, otherwise I'll fucking dead and never post anything in this board.

[T-Bone]

That would be a bad thing? Oops I didn't mean it like that.