Hi Folks
Just had my electricty restored since being off from last Monday morning and I am only 3 miles from a major town, at the high of Ophelia there was about 330,000 houses without electricity. Since Monday had no power, no mobile coverage, and no water (we have our own well with a pump hence no water) it was like going back to the 50's or 60's I presume, and there is only so many card games you can play, but it was great to talk, go to the cinema etc (after 29 years of marriage celebrated this week) without electronic gizmo's.
We had no damage done, but many trees down across our road, so we were house bound until it was save to power up the chainsaw, regrettably 3 people lost their lives in this ex hurricane.
Glad I took down the OFC1200 as the wind reached 145Kph at my house and 186Kph at the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse.
As we had to get bottled water from the shops with many sold out of same, I could appreciate what the people in Puerto Rico are putting up with, but a hundred times worse.
We realized that this so call "perfect" water, that millions drink around the world every day, and taste like crap compared to the water from our well, it also left one hell of a scum on the bottom of pot when we boiled it, so the "perfect" water is not that perfect after all.
It will be late in the week before I can make an attempt to put back up the OFC1200 as we just finished with storm Brian today, a pussycat compared to Ophelia, also there is a massive backlog of work outstanding that I could not get to in the last week.
The Rascals