You were fortunate to be in a neighborhood where people at least shared food and talked to each other. Here in the rural areas we were totally alone. Me and my cat (who was frightened beyond belief). You have no idea how dark it gets in the country - like being in the bottom of a coal mine. Finally got 3 kerosene lamps that acted more or less as nite lites - the cat cried piteously without them, and glued himself to me even in the daylight. Toilet flushing was a real problem . For 2 days I ate mostly crackers and peanut butter and drank a 2 litre bottle of warm gingerale. No one to talk to. Thankfully I am healthy - I shudder to think of the frail older people who were also alone in the dark. My name is Mary Sias. I live in Prince Edward County, VA. The eye of Isabel came right thru the middle of us - fortunately no damage. I was in Manassas in 1972 when Hurricane Agnes hit and much of Manassas was underwater - but it was still not as demoralizing as Isabel was. Anyone reading this - if you dont know your neighbors - knock on their doors and make yourself known. Better late than never. Put together non-perishable pantries of canned goods against ice storms or other disasters. Stock bottled water the same way. Thanks for listening. --- FRMRNYR@aol.com wrote: > Yes, it was not fun not having TV, or Computer, > But it was worse not having a > Fridge. > Most Held Big cook outs and every one cooked > the contents of their fridges on > Friday. > Easier to Share than throw out all that food. > Having too cook everything on the barbecue was > not too hard. > During the day you could read, and do yard > work, but at night, there really > wasn't much to do. The radio was your only life > line. > HOWEVER, what was really bad was that there was > no PHONES, WITH Electric not > working the phones didn't work. And Even the > cell phone towers run on > electric. And even when they started working > you couldn't call a LAND line because > they had no electric and their phones weren't > working. > Trying to find ice and water here was horrible. > And gasoline for cars? you > should have seen the lines............. > The pizza place on my corner never lost > electric (they were on same grid as > electric company) was serving coffee at am > Friday. > But worse was that none of the traffic lights > worked, so they were telling > people to stay home, you don't realize how much > traffic lights save lives, until > u don't have them. > Walmart was stripped bare of all it's > necessities, home depot was selling > generators, saws, water, etc., before they even > put it on the shelves. > But what's really bad is that we saw COMPLETE > HOMES go into the Atlantic > ocean, JUST FLOAT AWAY. We saw trees in peoples > houses, we saw one tree come into > a house while the guy was in bed, and the tree > stopped a foot from his face. > My biggest pet peeve, is the fact that they are > going to rebuild kitty hawk, > (outerbanks) 13 million dollars, I mean it was > washed away, completely, (my > prayers go to those 300 people) who are stuck > in the middle of the ocean, > completely cut off from the entire world. > And they want to do it in 90 days because of > the celebration of the first > flight. > They got to replace all that sand, and build > new hotels, considering 4 were > also washed away, > Again thanks for everything, I need to get > working on myweb site, after we do > laundry, etc. > Schools are still closed and it's raining > again, all those people with no > roofs. > Kristina > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com