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Originally posted by mardigras
I hate after a direct hurricane hit everything comes to a complete stop for a couple weeks. No power, no phone, no cable if you DO have power, nothing that isn't essential is open and those few stores that are open don't have anything because people act like they are stocking up for WWIII
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We live over the one single oldest block of electrical wiring on the entire planet apparently. After Isabelle hit, lots of VA lost power. Our ENTIRE neighborhoods power came back after about 4 days except for one block. Guess who lives on that block? lol...we called the power company and were like, "Hey...uh...my neighbors got power 3 houses away...what's the deal." They said that we were on some archaic wiring system and since they tried to get it back up and couldn't they had to keep with the schedule for fixes and we would get fixed once they had gone through the entire list for VA. Long story short, we were out of power for 6 weeks while my neighbors were out in the streets partying, boomboxes on, AC blowing out the front door into the street. We finally said fuck it for the last week and just went to a hotel. Candles suck ass...I hope I never have to use another one evar!