First of all, Eb, you know that "yer beaubear" hates to hear about yer ordeal... Hate it!!!

I can't quite top yers but I lived thru a couple no-funners in Mission Holler back in Wes Ginny...

The first was like '90 or '91... It was mid October and the leaves were still on the trees and we had a freak thunder snow storm which dumped about 6 inches of snow in about an hour and seein' as the leaves were still on the trees, it broke thousands of branches outta trees and hundreds of complete trees and when this one hour snow had stopped there were electric lines down for miles and miles and for the next 10 days none within 5 miles had any electricity unless they had a generator...

Now when you live in a holler there ain't no water 'cept what comes outta yer well and without electricity the well pump doesn't work so we had no water except what we got from what snow I was smart enough to gather into buckets and the bathtub but after it melted it still wasn't much water...

Like the song says "You don't miss the water until the well runs dry"... Think toilets here...

And when we called the electric company they would just tell us that we were living in a "dead zone"??? Duhhhhh???

Tell you what, Eb... Those linemen were a welcome sight when they showed up to run a new line from the pole to our house... Took about an hour for the water heater to get the water hot and about an hour of soakin' in a hot bubble bath before I gave any thought to ever getting out of that tub again...

That was the worst...

2nd worst was '96 and 31 inches of snow!!! It took 3 days of shoveling to make a path out to the only road that the state was able to to get open... That was no fun at all either... No mam.... It was so deep it could not be plowed because in moutain roads there was no place for the snow to go so each raod had to be dug out with front end loaders and snow taken to reveens one bucket at a time...

But, sniff, still sorry yer going thru this...

Bueabear