Originally Posted by LauraLee

Hey Mike,
I could not agree with you more. My power is out now, only reason i am online is cause i kicked it over to a friends house this morning. I was sitting at my kitchen table on my laptop and it sounded like a shotgun went off, and there was a big splash of light. I could not believe my power was still on, but then i walked over to the window and the power lines that run behind my condo looked like they were on fire- they were all sparking like crazy and making this loud ass popping noise. I called 911, it was pretty scary- the branches kept hitting the lines everywhere along the stretch of wires from the one tranformer to the other pole. A big branch came down right into the lines and was dangling RIGHT OVER MY CAR. I had a vantage point view looking down on all this (i am on the 3rd floor). Thru all of this i still had power and was just holding my breath knowing it was going off any second. Yep, it went down about 5 minutes later. It was the first time i have ever been happy to loose power, haha. Atleast the 6 or so snarled live power wires that came unwrapped and were sparking weren't sparking no mo! But the minute you know you don't have electric it just sucks. haha. Anyways i rode it out and was pretty amazed when i was walking my dogs this morning. Lots and lots of trees down, tons of signs down.. debree everywhere. I mean everywhere. Nobody has electric in my neighborhood. I only had one friend who got power back (hense my reason for coming over here) and i know my power will not be back soon since there was all the line damage etc. Atleast that is how it was last year when the power lines also caught fire when a different tree came down on it (i didn't have power for 8 full days last year).
Sooo it's grin and bare it for now ;) yay!

Hope everyone else is faring ok....