Well I managed to get connected to some leeched wifi (laptop and wifi both running on batteries) and do a short post. Lots going on in Kentucky as we have had a serious ice storm…with nearly over 500,000 people without power in KENTUCKY ALONE – 100k in Louisville, 40k in Lexington- including my office . I usually don’t post things unrelated to search and marketing but I know I have a lot of local Lexington subscribers who might appreciated some photos and links.
First, I loved Rich Copley’s piece on how Twitter and Facebook are helping people to connect during this high-stress event. Bloggers are pretty quick to write about how they experienced the storm too.
And further evidence that CNN likes to ignore “fly-over states”. Here we are in a state of emergency and more than a million people without power on a night expected to get into the single digits…but they make sure to post stories about NFL players donating brains and pro wrestling. Thank goodness bloggers are around to give some thoughtfulness to the whole thing. Google News is my friend.
I found a couple of good image sets about the storm, check those out. This image set is pretty amazing.
I’m shell-shocked after the 2003 ice storm (a picture of our house in 2003) so now I’m totally jumpy – every little sound makes my heart race. The sickening “crack!” of the cold wood gets into your mind in a very strange way. Ice storms really, really, really are teh suck.
Our house in 2003 ice storm
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I spoke with my sister last Sunday. She said, her two grown children, not living at home, where out of electric, and her electric went off Sunday. She lives in a remote area of Lexington, and I have not been able to get in touch with her.I am in West Virginia and we have had our own ice problems. It seems as if the government could do better then this. This reminds me of the New Orleans hurrican in a smaller form. Still the electric company seems to have our lives in their hands. This seems to have taken too long to get control of and I believe the electric company is dragging their feet.
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