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Date Posted: 13:34:40 10/20/06 Fri
Author: Bill Gonsa
Subject: Re: Buffalo Has Power
In reply to: Kathleen 's message, "Buffalo Has Power" on 19:42:03 10/18/06 Wed

Glad to hear all is well. Our house was back to normal Tuesday afternoon (out since last Thursday). My generator operated fine. The generator doesn't power up the whole house but the furnace, sump pump, refrigerators, freezer, microwave, kitchen outlets and lights (what else is more important) were energized. We didn't run the generator 24 hours a day so candles were used at bedtime and back up at 6 A.M. to get the generator running. After a day or so, the big problem was finding a gas station that had power. We found one in Strykersville that had a generator. Natural gas for a generator isn't a bad idea.

By the way, great job with the reunion. Wish I could have also made it Friday evening. Looking forward to the next one-----------------in July!!!!

>In East Amherst, our power has come on....off since
>last Thurs. Will do a reunion report tomorrow....and
>the two (yes, two) feet of snow is gone....36,000
>homes in the town of Amherst can each fill one and a
>half trucks with debris from what they are calling the
>"October Surprise"....the single worst storm in
>Buffalo history with twelve dead thus far....a week
>ago Monday, it was 70 degrees....just four days later,
>the WNY area was decimated....trees split in
>half...Our willow is just a third of its former
>self....they hit the switch last night and it set on
>fire...our power lines are in the back of the house.
>Today, a team led by a guy from Syracuse...he actually
>lived in my subdivision on Onondaga Hill and my Dad
>was his family's dry cleaner....came into the back
>yard and took the limbs from off the lines and
>restored our electricity....52 degrees in the house
>for a week....not pretty!!! But a sump pump, the
>price of which had me cursing for months, kept our
>basement dry....if you can afford to have your current
>pump replaced with one that works on water, do
>yourself a favor and get one now....everyone else in
>the area had feet of water in their cellars....and we
>had not one drop. Our next major investment will be a
>generator that runs on the gas from the house not
>propane or gas from a can....it is the way in which we
>can guarantee never having to use it!!!
>More later....night, night K

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