OCTOBER SNOW STORM OF 06 ALL SNOW RELATED POSTS GO HERE and ONLY here

[eMKay]

@sureshot007

Trying to get home friday morning, my car got stuck at the corner of my street. So I bust out the big, badass snowblower my roomate has, and an hour later, I snowblew a path down the whole street so I could get my car home on a donut, because I had a blowout thursday night. Got home to no power. Made the short trek out to Grand Island and stole the generator from the timing truck . Only problem is that it only puts out 7 amps, so I could power the fridge, tv, and PS2 (everytime the fridge cycled, it rebooted the tv, but the PS2 stayed on!) So we played God of War for 3 days. The cable came on a 7:45, just in time for the Sabres game! Power came back Sunday night. So I don’t have any complaints, really. Other than the snow ripping the mud guards off of my car. Delaware Park and the Zoo look like shit, though.

I was wondering if anyone would grab that

[sureshot007]

@eMKay

I was wondering if anyone would grab that

Dale beat me to it, but his power came back on Friday, so I was able to steal it from him.

[Adictd2b00st]

@BikerFry

And the people in NO could watch a special about famine and disease in Africa where there’s no hope, there was no isolated incident to run from, there was no warning, and the people had did not choose to live in a ticking time bomb and then they’d be pussies. There’s always someone who has it worse. That doesn’t mean that what we’re not in a bad situation. Just because you were in Buffalo when the snow started to fall doesn’t mean you have a clue. Obviously.

Yeah, it was snow in upstate NY. That’s not the problem. It’s the large amount of freakishly early snow that tore down trees that had been standing for 100+ years. It’s the inability to heat our homes. It’s the sewage pumps that stopped working and are under water. It’s the lack of potable water. It’s the ambulance I watched get stuck in the street in front of my house while transporting an old woman on oxygen. Its the people bailing water out of their basements for days straight trying to save the things they’ve worked hard for.

Sorry if your tax dollar goes to helping those in need for once rather than helping people abuse the welfare system and avoid contributing to society as usual. A lot of us cannot afford to have a $500 dollar generator just in case a once in a lifetime disaster happens with NO WARNING. You see, it wasn’t a lack of preparation. Saying that anyone who lives where it snows should have a generator is like saying everyone in NO should have had their own life boat. Don’t worry about your tax money. You’re demonstrating exactly why you’re not allowed to decide where it goes. Just because you’ll never have a time of need where the government will help you out doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have government help. You’ll be fine. So will we.

Here’s the other thing. We’re not just up here sitting on our thumbs waiting to be saved. It’s neighbors helping each other clear the rubble. It’s the community members bringing hot coffee to those standing in line for a generator to give their families heat. It’s the neighborhood cheering for and sincerely appreciating the hard work of the electricians going above and beyond to restore their power. It’s the electricians working 24/7 through snow, wind, and rain to restore the Buffalo electrical infastructure. It’s all of us doing what we can to help each other get through this.

So on behalf of all of us in Buffalo who are banding together to get through what is more than a little snow and a couple of tree limbs and need a little government help, how about you STFU?

couldn’t have said it better myself

[MikeRi24]

wow. what a past few days. i posted up on saturday night about what went on so far, but sicne then, i spent the whole day sunday chainsawing and clearing out the HUGE maple tree that fell in my grandma’s yard, then went over to my friends house to help him bail out his basement. Yesterday morning (monday, i think?) i awoke to my cell phone rining and it was my mom telling me that she went to my grandm’as house and found here laying on the floor barely alive. needless to say, she died an hour later in the ER (my grandpa just died 6 weeks ago), so my family is kinda going crazy right now. she had a 12 week old puppy that we now have (bringing us up to 3 dogs now).

anyway, im going on day #6 without power (been out sicne ~4:30 Thursday evening). im actually starting to get used to all of this, and when i left to come to UB (which is where im at now) there were a ton of State Highway Dept and Town contraceted service truck on my street clearing out the trees, and the National Grid trucks are starting to roll in slowly but surely, so im feeling optimisitic that by tonight or tomoorw, i’ll have power back.

about the only good thing i can make out of this whole thing, is my grandma left her 2005 Chevy Impala (with 4500 miles on it) to me, so i have a really nice car to drive in the winter now, and thats one less thing i have to worry about buying. i think thats it for now, hopefully i’ll be talking to you guys real soon from my own computer.

[Fry]

^Wow, awful week. Sorry to hear Mike. God bless.

[The_Russian]

Sorry about the loss mike. Wish your family well for me, I know how much that hurts.

[RedGoober4Life]

I heard Roswell is having a shortage of blood. I was thinking about donating tomorrow at around 12pm. Anybody that wants to come with me is more than welcome to.

http://www.roswellpark.org/Home/MMNR/Press/Blood_and_Platelet_Donors_Needed_at_Roswell_Park

[Sc1chik]

Wow, sorry to hear man.

[Pass_McGass]

Damn, Mike, that really stinks. Sorry to hear

What kind of condition was she in before the storm hit?

[Justin]

Is anyone else as annoyed about the stupid ass hyped up headline “Storm on Friday the 13th” thing. It aggravates the shit outta me. It happened on the 12th get it straight, it was thawing on the 13th.

[RedConquestTSi]

/rant

[dmoffitt]

@Mrs. Karus

until your in the situation-

just please… don’t talk.

did you miss the part about me being there? oh, that’s right. my car is out there too, kthx bye

[dmoffitt]

@Pass McGrass

You voted for bush…TWICE. You have absolutely no right to criticize anyone about who they MIGHT vote for.

shadup ya dirty hippy. go make a snow angel.

[neurokinetik]

@eMKay

You really don’t have anything to complain about if the food is your complaint, since most of us figured out that you can use a cooler filled with snow to keep your food cold, even my frozen stuff stayed frozen.

Doesn’t help for shit when you’ve got nothing to cook it with though. Electric (non-working) stove, and microwave. No place to put or use a gas grill.

[Janny]

all of my storm pictures are here…

[Bacon]

@MikeRi24

wow. what a past few days. i posted up on saturday night about what went on so far, but sicne then, i spent the whole day sunday chainsawing and clearing out the HUGE maple tree that fell in my grandma’s yard, then went over to my friends house to help him bail out his basement. Yesterday morning (monday, i think?) i awoke to my cell phone rining and it was my mom telling me that she went to my grandm’as house and found here laying on the floor barely alive. needless to say, she died an hour later in the ER (my grandpa just died 6 weeks ago), so my family is kinda going crazy right now. she had a 12 week old puppy that we now have (bringing us up to 3 dogs now).

anyway, im going on day #6 without power (been out sicne ~4:30 Thursday evening). im actually starting to get used to all of this, and when i left to come to UB (which is where im at now) there were a ton of State Highway Dept and Town contraceted service truck on my street clearing out the trees, and the National Grid trucks are starting to roll in slowly but surely, so im feeling optimisitic that by tonight or tomoorw, i’ll have power back.

about the only good thing i can make out of this whole thing, is my grandma left her 2005 Chevy Impala (with 4500 miles on it) to me, so i have a really nice car to drive in the winter now, and thats one less thing i have to worry about buying. i think thats it for now, hopefully i’ll be talking to you guys real soon from my own computer.

Wow, crazy week sorry to hear about the loss.

[Tkklemann]

Damn, you guys really got pounded.

[dmoffitt]

Mike, sorry to hear about your Grandmother, that’s really tragic Glad to see you’re looking on the positive of it, I suppose it’s fitting that at least someone who likely passed on because of the stress of the situation left you a car, alleviating some of your stress.

[RedDawg]

parents house, the dogs helped out:

puppy is no longer amused:

[RedConquestTSi]

Cute dogs