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This is the most uncomfortable I've ever been...

Like half of the country, we are experencing record highs.....

Well Thursday night, we had a massive wind storm... Knocking out power to 2.5 people in Virginia alone....2 days later, 80% of customers in my city are without power.... massive trees and power lines wrapped them, just laying in the road, on peoples cars ect...

My sister works at 911 dispatch and multiple reports of trees falling on moving cars... The hospital has been working off generators for days now... half the city doesn't even have working stop lights, its all very surreal.

Anyways, today it is suppose to be 99degrees, but in a very Virginia like summer, the humdity is high, and will feel about 115 degrees today.

This is day 2 and it is expected to be another full week, 9 days total until power is completely restored.

I am staying at my mothers, who is luckily out of town, who has power, and even more impressively has internet, no one else i know has net...

Whats the longest you've been without power?
 

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Easily over a week. Used to live in Biloxi Miss. Was there for Hurricane Camile. Think it was in 70 tho. I was just a kid. We had no AC and of course no computer or internet to miss.
 

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where do live in virginia? tons of trees down here in wv where i live...
 

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53 of 55 counties lost some type of power in wv..
 

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Easily over a week. Used to live in Biloxi Miss. Was there for Hurricane Camile. Think it was in 70 tho. I was just a kid. We had no AC and of course no computer or internet to miss.

makes me very grateful for the generation I am in. Lol. cannot even imagine life without AC... we didn't have central air until I was 16 and before that it was one occasional room with a window unit.
 

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where do live in virginia? tons of trees down here in wv where i live...

Lynchburg, East of Roanoke, and South of Charlottesville....

Yeah, I know WV was hit just as hard.... it was all unexpected....

It's amazing, at least here, it was ALL a windstorm, a Derecho, a word I never heard of until now.....
 

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makes me very grateful for the generation I am in. Lol. cannot even imagine life without AC... we didn't have central air until I was 16 and before that it was one occasional room with a window unit.
Yes, I feel the same way now. Like I said, it was a long time ago. Really can't miss what you never had.
 

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Prob a week when I was a kid due to a snow storm. I have a natural gas generator now that will run the whole house so as long as a tree doesn't fall on it I am good.
 

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12 days from a hurricane in south florida. it was so fucking brutal that i bought a generator and an air-conditioner.
 

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The only time I remember being without power was when we had those terrible wild fires in San Diego and it knock out the power companies power poles. We lost electricity for about 12 hours. It sure wasn't much fun being without TV and the internet, but luckily we had plenty of candles to light up the house. You don't realize how important power is until you lose it. But the really bad part came when San Diego Gas and Electric asked for a rate increase...again...because of those wild fires. Figures doesn't it?
 

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Governor McDonnell's news conference: Third largest power restoration effort in Virginia history. this happened Thursday night, and as of right now still 800,000 people without power.....
 

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4 days...had a MicroBurst

It SUCKED...lost the contents...in both of my freezers and refrigerators

don't wish it on anyone
 

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