ICE BASE 9: Oklahoma
 

I have tickets for a Dinosaur Jr. show in a very small venue.

all day the ice has come down and the roads are dangerous.

the band is at the venue and they go on at 10:00.

cabs aren't running and the lady at the cab company told me to stay home (which means I'm driving myself).

anyways, it's been nice knowing y'all.

I'm on a suicide mission for noise.

good luck man, drive safe.... and even if you die it's totally worth it... as long as you die on the drive home AFTER you've already seen the band.

still alive?

Hopefully if not I call girlgun first.

he already has a history of hit and runs.

All androids please check in.

If Wayne Coyne is there, will you say hello for me?

No word from floatingslowly yet? Hope they are okay. I wonder if Dinosaur Jr. showed up themselves given the weather being so very bad.

Typing from phone. Show went on as dino jr was already here. They made it safe to and fro. Trouble didn't happen until after 1 am when trees started crashing and things started exploding. We didn't lose power until 9 am though. There are trees down everywhere. Powerlines everywhere. My little buddy (the dove sitting on egg on a branch in my backyard) lost her home in a big way. Things came down so fast squirrels were hiding in window sills. Anyway 1 million people don't have power and some probably won't for a good while (like me since my power lines and even meter were ripped from my house. Awesome. I'm cold and typing under 12 blankets.

That sucks.
Hope everything goes back to normal soon.


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What's happened?

now i believe you're choctaw

you have 12 blankets

Hope you guys are okay, take care.

Whew, thanks girlgun. So floatingslowly will be back when the power is restored.

guess who has been jo'ing to tornados.


hope they didnt make it to the vortex, though.

the power won't be back on in my house for a few weeks because the meter box was torn from the back of the house.

this means I have to:

have the power company getting around to removing me from the grid
have an electrician remount the box
have a tree guy remove the three tons of wood that's on my line, fence and garage
have the city inspect the electrician's work
have the power company hook me back up to the grid

there were 600,000 people without power yesterday, so none of this will happen quickly.


we are staying at future-mom-in-law's empty apartment, so I had my first shower in 3 days yesterday and was finally able to change out of the clothes that I wore to the dinosaur show.

I'm very very very lucky to have a place to stay. most don't.


PS: Dinosaur Jr. caught the PA on fire. awesome.

Jesus, that sounds horrible.
Are your pipes all frozen too?
I'm glad you guys had someplace to go.

I'm glad that you're ok. I missed this thread, so I didn't know of all the troubles. I thought that robots only needed some dusting and oiling, not showers.

Nice way to prevent Ice Age :D!
Glad you're allright! Hope you won't have to spend all your money on repairs... insurance?
porky: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...478/html/1.stm

not yet. I fully expect them to be (see also: shit looted, house burned down), however I left all the faucets dripping.

my friend who was in town broke the hot water handle on my shower on saturday, so that's been turn off since then.

the fun never stops.



it's more of a hosing down than a shower. you have to get the gore off somehow.



yeah we have insurance, but we don't know if my insurance or the lady next door has to file the claim (and she's been avoiding me).

it's just another firey hoop to jump through at this point.

good luck getting back to normal life.

Oh man.
I am really sorry you had such a long and protracted ordeal thrust upon you like this.

holy fuckamoly, man. I had not seen this. CRAZY! best of luck.

Don't worry, Bush and FEMA will rush in to save the day, once everything is ruined and their butt buddies in texas can come in and make a killing.

that is seriously fucked up. lucky for you, there's no scarcity of blankets. do you have an insurance broker to call? his/her phone is probably ringing like mad, but anyway...

you wanna free copy of arthur magazine to entertain yourself with while paris burns? i mean OK city-- pm me your (current) mailing address and i'll send it your way.

I'm glad you're okay, man. I've been worried about you, since I've heard that the OKC has been completely fucked. I'm glad I live south of the Red River (even if it's only a couple of miles).

keep it cool, mr. robot.


no, scratch that. keep it warm.

not so much.

we had no idea it would be like this.

hell, I had my friend up from Dallas for the Dinosaur Jr show and didn't even bother telling him it MIGHT ice (they are so often wrong or overexagerative). he now has some sort of "disaster survival cred" with the people who knew he was here.

the electric company has STILL not removed my downed line so I can start fixing the rest and that really fucks me off.

I heard a guy on a cell phone yesterday talking about how his power is back on because he just "grabbed an OG&E (electric co.) guy" and they fixed him up. it made me SO pissed off because I can't get something taken care of that might burn down my shit.

to top it off, I have to fix my shower that broke on saturday so that I can drip the hot water line. it's going to snow 6" here tonite and get down to 18 degrees, so I'm worried my pipes might bust.

I'm tired, sore from sleeping in somone else's bed and stressed about doing all of this AND being ready for my father-in-law's wedding today.

XENU GRANT ME STRENGTH!!



PS: thanks to all for yr kind words.

haha update.

things are looking up? got electrician out. meter is back on the house. all trees have been removed (600 dollars later). thewife is fixing the faucet right now and scheduled a work order to have the cable reattached to the house.

now we wait for the fucking electric company.....

Glad to hear everything is alright, and you guys keep safe.

why wait?

pedal!

maybe i can get savage clone to come over?

Hey!

well you know him and pedaling!

you're always welcome, although it's not really a good time right now. ha.

Yeah, Especially since he has the gear.

A MONTH?!!?!?!?! FUCKING AWFUL. the man heard rumors that we might have power this weekend. i asked a magic 8 ball earlier today and it said yes.

The Ouija board is more accurate.

I hope you get the power.

we lucked out again.

the electrician didn't have the right weatherhead and he spent most of the day looking for one.

some guy sold him the part off his truck. he told me that the type I need is like gold these days.

I'm all hooked back up right now, my hot water spout is fixed (different issue) and the cable company will be out to fix the line (sometime).

I was also able to get ahold of the lady next door so that she can file a claim (it was her tree).

the better part of today was spent cutting branches away from my line and scraping ice off the garage. it's the first day I actually feel like stuff is happening.

but ugh....I have to be at a wedding in an hour. time for a shower.

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thank you jeezuz fer 'lectricy.

it's been a fucking week, but it's back on.

also thank you to "tesco" whoever you are.