Who here has had a fridge go bad on them because the power went out from Hurricane Ike?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Me, for one, and a few million other Texans.

Did we ever hear from TexanWitch?

[KitchenWitch]

1. TexanWitch is okay.

She has no internet, not sure if she has power yet.

She posted from a local restaurant that had free WiFi. I think she said the cable guys would be out later this week or early next week to repair the service.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. I left town to get away from the power outage in Houston.

I went to East Texas, after six days of no power. I got up early and went to a gas station, not knowing if they would have any gasoline. Fortunately I did have a gas range so I could heat up water.

Houston was devasted with falling trees. Mine did NOT land on the house. It was a huge up-rooted oak tree. The hole in the ground is eight or ten feet wide.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Glad your house is okay.

I imagine cleanup is going to be a long slow process.

[jobycom]

4. After Katrina, people in NOLA were taping up their fridges and rolling them to the curb.

They were advised not to open them after a few days, so the city eventually came through and picked them up.

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5. fridge? hell, in the ice storm of 2007 in the ozarks, anything plugged into a socket got fried...

a falling branch ripped the wires out of my main and caused 240v to shoot through the house. anything plugged in got fried. tvs, the computer, the toaster, the coffee maker... surge protectors or not. it all got fried.

without power for 21 days.

yep, hurricanes suck. ice storms suck too.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Hurricane Frances cost us our wedding cake.

My wife and I had just gotten married and tried to do the whole "freeze the cake and eat it on our first anniversary." Frances and a five day power outage assured us otherwise.