MappingClouds t1_j5qynfk wrote on January 24, 2023 at 11:10 PM

I didn’t live here at the time but from what some have told me the 2007 ice storm really broke a lot of people and so they make sure they have everything.

DaltonTanner1994 t1_j5r3l5e wrote on January 24, 2023 at 11:42 PM

This, two weeks without electricity was something else.

WaywardDeadite t1_j5rn2q5 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:01 AM

My MIL worked for City Utilities and didn't have any power but two little boys at home. She had to work 24/7 with her kids freezing at home alone. Shit like that absolutely breaks you.

daysknight t1_j5s0148 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:38 AM

My parents worked at a nursing home, so we spent about a week sleeping in my mom's office because we had no power, and they could not leave. At least they had generators though so there was minimal heat.

Low_Tourist t1_j5rsfy1 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:40 AM

It was several days before you could get anything. Some stores had generators but could only take cash. Lines were hours long at the stores that were open. It was brutal.

antares127 t1_j5s401e wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:10 AM

I was 12 when that happened. Old enough to remember it well but not old to feel the weight of it that my parents did. People joke about how we bring it up a lot when talking about winter but damn was that shit crazy. Two weeks without power. We put our refrigerated items outside in the snow and ice to keep it cold. You couldn’t go anywhere without everything being encased in two inches of ice. Shit was wack

Ryanqzqz t1_j5vjwe7 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 9:27 PM

Oddly enough I was a Missouri native transplanted to southern OK at the time and I felt like Superman.

We got hammered and it was a month before we had power at our place, and we were stuck out of work and with little to no town infrastructure up and running for at least two weeks.

I pushed people out of flat sections of road (because in OK you apparently can get stuck just trying to move forward at a stoplight) with my Ford Taurus on mud tires and we kept the house warm with fish fryers in the living room and blankets stapled to the living room doorways.

We drank ice cold beer we kept on the porch and I literally cooked a few squirrels, because “well we’re supposed to be in survival mode, right?” My wife was less than enthused… and ate spaghetti and meatballs she cooked on the fish fryer…

Now I know why everyone looks at me weird when I love days like today…