...insane in the brain!
There is no LJ emotion icon for "overwhelmed" but thats what I am right now.
I am in Canada now at my mom's fiance's house. My mom was in town and they came and got me (it was the final text my dead-cell phone could send).
Thursday night at around 10:30ish PM, the power went out and it has been out ever since. All the food in my fridge needs to be thrown out. My apartment has no heat, my cats are kind of cold. Right now though, its in the mid 40's and tomorrow its supposed to be 50, but holy fuck there's some shit going on.
No one has power. People's basements are flooding, and there are fallen trees and heavy tree branches EVERYWHERE. Everywhere you look, theres just trees. My neighbor suggested I move my car Thursday night lest the old pine tree (that did lose some branches) fall on my car, but it got kinda stuck in the driveway due to all the heavy snow, so I left it. The giant tree across the street from me? Well, a third of it is laying in that neighbors lawn. Sara & I stuck our heads out the porch door that night and it was dead silent and dark except for distant sounds of random cracking & snapping...which was really fucking eerie. You didn't know where it was coming from.
Friday I didn't go to work, obviously, but my cell & computer battery both died. We have a gas stove though so we were able to eat some warm food and make tea. They're saying now we have to boil water because the treatment facility is out of whack, and now the hot rumor is that they're shutting off water within the next few days. So I did get some bottled water.
We have hot water though, for showers and stuff. Which is good. But this morning, I did leave my house to check to see if the record store had power. It didn't. The lot wasn't even plowed and from my house to the store there was no gas stations open so I rode the entire way home with my "check gage" light on. So I had no gas. The mall was open, so I went with Sara to work and charged my phone at her store, where my phone was bombarded with texts & voice mails. So yes, I'm alive.
My mom & Mike came to get me, and Mike brought a gas can with two gallons of gas for me, which got me over the border & into Canada. I'm currently typing this from his computer, in a house that is chock full of electrical goodness and heat. fear_of_ghosts,sushibandit, newdisguise, rain_e_nite, jodygage, radiosilents, villainforhire, I hope you guys are OK too...amanwithnoname you're ok because you called me Friday to remind me that you had power, so whatever. Go sit there and play your video games...see if I care. Pssssh.
I'm reading the utility websites and they say power will be restored as early as Tuesday, as late as next week, but some people already have power now, so its a crap shoot. The nbc.com news website is showing more photos of downtown Buffalo, which looks fucking insane...There looks like theres a tad more damage there, but there are trees down everywhere. And its insane.
Although in St. Catharines, there is no snow at all. I'm going to be here for dinner and leaving here tonight to go back. I just couldn't sit in the cold apartment all day while Sara was at work.
Later.
I am in Canada now at my mom's fiance's house. My mom was in town and they came and got me (it was the final text my dead-cell phone could send).
Thursday night at around 10:30ish PM, the power went out and it has been out ever since. All the food in my fridge needs to be thrown out. My apartment has no heat, my cats are kind of cold. Right now though, its in the mid 40's and tomorrow its supposed to be 50, but holy fuck there's some shit going on.
No one has power. People's basements are flooding, and there are fallen trees and heavy tree branches EVERYWHERE. Everywhere you look, theres just trees. My neighbor suggested I move my car Thursday night lest the old pine tree (that did lose some branches) fall on my car, but it got kinda stuck in the driveway due to all the heavy snow, so I left it. The giant tree across the street from me? Well, a third of it is laying in that neighbors lawn. Sara & I stuck our heads out the porch door that night and it was dead silent and dark except for distant sounds of random cracking & snapping...which was really fucking eerie. You didn't know where it was coming from.
Friday I didn't go to work, obviously, but my cell & computer battery both died. We have a gas stove though so we were able to eat some warm food and make tea. They're saying now we have to boil water because the treatment facility is out of whack, and now the hot rumor is that they're shutting off water within the next few days. So I did get some bottled water.
We have hot water though, for showers and stuff. Which is good. But this morning, I did leave my house to check to see if the record store had power. It didn't. The lot wasn't even plowed and from my house to the store there was no gas stations open so I rode the entire way home with my "check gage" light on. So I had no gas. The mall was open, so I went with Sara to work and charged my phone at her store, where my phone was bombarded with texts & voice mails. So yes, I'm alive.
My mom & Mike came to get me, and Mike brought a gas can with two gallons of gas for me, which got me over the border & into Canada. I'm currently typing this from his computer, in a house that is chock full of electrical goodness and heat. fear_of_ghosts,sushibandit, newdisguise, rain_e_nite, jodygage, radiosilents, villainforhire, I hope you guys are OK too...amanwithnoname you're ok because you called me Friday to remind me that you had power, so whatever. Go sit there and play your video games...see if I care. Pssssh.
I'm reading the utility websites and they say power will be restored as early as Tuesday, as late as next week, but some people already have power now, so its a crap shoot. The nbc.com news website is showing more photos of downtown Buffalo, which looks fucking insane...There looks like theres a tad more damage there, but there are trees down everywhere. And its insane.
Although in St. Catharines, there is no snow at all. I'm going to be here for dinner and leaving here tonight to go back. I just couldn't sit in the cold apartment all day while Sara was at work.
Later.