Tulsa Ice Storm – December 2007
This year’s Ice Storm has sucked…and I mean sucked big time. There were at one time almost 800,000 customers in Oklahoma without power. In December, that’s not a good thing.
We’ve been without power since sometime around 2am Monday morning. Since the in-laws have a gas generator, we’ve been staying in their house where the furnace is running at a good 71°.
Working at a hospital proves difficult in these times too because a lot of businesses are closed down due to their own lack of power therefore their work force is at home taking care of business. The hospital never closes and we have our own quite complex power generator backup system so we’re still expected to be at work shining brightly.
I’d really like to be home during the day, cleaning up the house, fixing little problems that this ice storm has caused but alas I sit at work from sun up, to sun down.
One thing this whole experience has taught me is to always carry a lighter in your pocket. Never know when you might need to light a candle.
With this whole power outage experience it seems quite odd to me that we’d actually have people out there who are lighting up their Christmas lights, as if to say “Screw you guys…I’ve got POWER!” This just doesn’t set well with me. With heaps of people without power, you actually have the audacity to not only enjoy your heat, but to gloat about it by “Clark Griswold’ing” your neighborhood.
