Monday, September 26, 2011

The Great Stormy Oakland County Power Outage of 2011

A few weeks back, a massive storm tore through the area and left thousands of people without power. Trees were everywhere, lines were down across many cities and my neighborhood was a mess.

Across the street from me. The tree was long enough to scrape the gutter when it fell but otherwise, the house was fine.

Hey neighbor, want a tree?

Telephone pole and electrical wires down.





The space between these two houses was once filled with tall, beautiful trees. They were cut down years ago and I was always upset about that... until now, because that would have caused some serious damage.





They probably didn't need that garage anyway.


A new view of the sky that's not blocked with as many trees.

I applaud them for trying, I guess.




I went about 48 hours without power. Break out the cat candles!

2 comments :

  1. Hell, the damage by you was worse than ours! Liam was on the news and it was really cute, but they took the video off the channel 7 site :(

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  2. @She is Sara

    I wonder if I can talk to my neighbor who works at channel 7 to see if he can find the video. Do you remember any specifics of what they were talking about in the clip?

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