TFOX, Gri22ly, PSE16 and other KY members
 

Anyone here from these guys?
I have text TFOX and I have not heard back.

Anyone here from any of these guys? Or anybody else in KY?

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Ok TFOX is good shape!!!! I just heard from him.

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Gary, We have relatives in KY. and phone service is still spotty and many are still out of power.

Dan

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Grizz is out of power but got a generator and finally some food. His general area was demolished....some areas expected to be without for up to 6 weeks.[&:]

93 of 120 Counties in KY declared state of emergency.
as of this morning 350,000 people still without power.
Governor declared this was worst natural disaster in modern history for KY
Many schools are still out due to being shelters for citizens without power, most for days as of now...but Muhlenburg county is closed "until further notice" they are one of the counties expected to be without for over a month.
100s of KY National Guard called to active duty to help restore power and distribute food/products to those in shelters. Biggest calling to duty for KY National Guard ever.

I live in Bowling Green, 3rd largest city in KY. Our county has a pop of 120k ish I think. We had about half the county down, but back up and running in a few days. All surrounding areas are still down. We just have a huge staff of linemen in Warren County, who are now working surrounding counties. ALOT of out of state linemen crews coming in to help as well. With literally 1000s of poles down, it will be a long tedious process.


This wasn't just KY either, many states were hit. I think KY may have got the worst of it from what it sounds like though. I oddly enough, never lost power once.

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I managed to survive. College was shut down Wed-Fri and my cell phone service spotty the last few days. I've been up in Graves County since Saturday evenning helping people get fallen trees off of their houses...Its still a mess in my part of the state.

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Thanks for the concern germ and I am doing fine but there are many that still need some prayers.

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Wishing nothing but the best for all the KY folks, we have a few ice storms every year up here but I cant recall any that bad. It can only get better from here!

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I was out of work all last week due to power being out. At home we were out one day but we heat with wood so it was no biggie. It was worse north of here up by my work (Richmond). Have heard that some will be out until endof this month.

Ed

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My thought and prayers are with you downthere waiting for things to be restored. Mother Nature can be very cruel at times. Hopefully they get things back to "normal" sooner than expected.

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I'm glad and hoping all of our HNI family members are okay in all that.

On a side note, I'm surprised I wasn't asked to head down that way to help. KY is a big Windstream area and we're occassionally outsourced to help out in extreme circumstances such as these.

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So what is it you do Rob?

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Outside telephone technician.

I climb poles, work aerial lines, etc.... Business key systems, computer networking etc...

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Your not needed yet,the poles are still on the ground.[&:]

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You aint lyin[:'(] I got power last night thankfully! We were very fortunate to be as comfortable as we were. We had the generator goin the whole time, and 2 100# bottles of propane so we had heat and power (mainly for the T.V. and creature comforts[:-][8D]) but since we have a well... no water. It sucked collecting ice sickles for the first few days. One day we had 11 people staying in our house! It was chaos.

Derek

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I hope everyone gets thier power back asap. My father took his crew out there, and they are hard at work thats for sure.

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YES I have spoke with Todd on the cell. He did have power and doing said he is doing fine. I could not get ahold of Grizz, but he did leave a message that he was without power, but finnaly got ahold of a generator and was now able to buy gas and food. The ice in there area was VERY BAD.

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Bowtech signing in from KY update...

Yeah, we've been down for a little over a week. As many of you know we had a major ice storm that wiped out much of Kentucky as well of some of you in the surronding areas. I haven't spoke with Gi22ly in the past week, but I'll give him a try tommorrow and see how he is.

Later.

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i live in lexington and i only lost power from wednesday morning til thursday afternoon last week. got lucky i guess. the next block over just got their power back on monday. a few of the people i go to school with in richmond just got their power back on tuesday and even yesterday and some still dont have power.

rob, myfather works for windstream also. he used to work outside and climb poles and all that stuff you do but he moved to an inside job testing circuits a couple of years ago

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I'm still without power but holding on. It's all getting very old, I'm so mad I can't see straight. My wife called me from work yesterday, she had read in the paperthat KU (Kentucky Utilities) had 125 crew members working inourhome town, so I got in the car and drove around.[:@]There were a total of 6 trucks, 1 contained 2 guys sleeping, 2 trucks running up and down the road and 3 trucks parked with 6 guys standing around a poll talking.[>:]They can bleed FEMA all they want but get my dam power on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I know it is frustrating.I work with a guy that is still without power as well.

I think they are strapped pretty thin though.I went to Golden Coral the other night and there were 3 electric trucks in there at 9 in the evening just getting there supper.

Hang in ther bud,if you need anything,just let me know.


Does it remind you of your childhood?;)

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Yes it does:D. We are the only town left without power in the county[:'(]...............We are the only one left to work on and no one is here.....As other towns get power they should converge on areas that don't have power.......This area should be over run with workers, NOT SO[>:]... I work 80+ hoursa week all the time, I don't feel sorryfor them.

GET THE POWER ON!!!!!![:@]

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Talked to my Mother yesterday, said she was told not to look for power till the end of the month. Hang in there Gri22ly, hope they get it up for ya soon.