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A few years back we had a 100 year ice storm. It was all over the news. We had to pull Entergy workers from all over. It was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. However, branches, heavy with ice would snap- cars and roofs were smashd. It sounded like gun shots. Huge branches would fall pulling down power lines as fast as they were repaired. Our electricity was out for 6 or 7 days, I just can't remember for sure. They missed our converter box because we weren't tied into our street but to an older neighborhood (low bid) So, three houses on our street were about the last in the city to be repaired. The first 2 nights were wonderful. We played games by the fireplace and cooked on the pit. Then, we ran out of wood... We smelled so bad and were so cold, I was walking around in my fur and sweats (sorry animal activists) trying to keep warm and nothing seemed to help. When the fast food places opened, about the third day, it wa almost a city wide celebration. No one looked at any other person though. Everyone was so disgusting, it was a mutual courtesy.
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