No Electricity, No Cell Phone Service, No Internet All Day
By Kareng
@kareng (55021)
United States
April 10, 2024 11:35pm CST
The storm blew through here in the early hours of the morning. It was really storming when I first woke up and since I knew I had to work at the boutique today, I went back to sleep until the alarm when off.
Shortly after the alarm when off the electricity went out. Usually, it is not out for very long, but we had rain in forecast for all day long.
We both had a bowl of cereal for breakfast and I got my things together and dressed to leave. I decided to leave early and got out of the house around 11 am. I stopped in town to pay my water bill which was due today.
The rain had stopped right before I left home and I had a very nice drive into Louisiana and the boutique. Since there were major power outages due to lots of trees down on the power lines, there was not much traffic on the roads.
It was a quiet day at the boutique and I rearranged some of my shelves, and worked on tagging some new products and adding some things to my clearance.
All in all, it was a good day. And much better than being in the dark all day without cell phone service or internet. Our services did not boot back up until after 4 pm. I think I would have been entertaining myself outside in that case.
Did this massive storm pass though your hometown?
Photo Credit: Pixabay, Public Domain
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17 responses
@FourWalls (62298)
• United States
11 Apr
We had bad weather last week here in Kentucky. I was watching the coverage on WWLT out of New Orleans with the flooding and the tornado in Slidell; and later on the Mobile, Alabama station when the bad weather reached there (and promptly flooded the causeway). Thankful to hear there were no fatalities.
Thankful, too, that you didn’t have any problems.
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@2ndchances24 (4934)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
11 Apr
I just got done seeing how bad it got in Slidell & they say
they had a tornado that tore everything up, I hate it when
people get wioed out by bad weather, it's hard enough
trying to stay afloat with the economy as it is now this.
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@2ndchances24 (4934)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
11 Apr
Nice that you could still get out & do what you had to do
& still have a plesent day to enjoy it all even without power.
We got rain pretty much all day but nothing serious to
worry about to knock out power just a nice gentle rain.
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@kareng (55021)
• United States
13 Apr
@2ndchances24 Awesome, and that is certainly great news. I've been through house flooding and that is how we ended up in Mississippi, originally from Louisiana. My house is up on a hill here 
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@2ndchances24 (4934)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
12 Apr
@kareng We ended up with like 3-4 inch's at most
& the BEST part of all was NONE made it IN the cabin.
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@snowy22315 (170261)
• United States
11 Apr
Ugh, hope that doesn't happen here. We are expecting storms. It will be windy as well.
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@kareng (55021)
• United States
13 Apr
@snowy22315 It was windy here today. Crazy weather for sure!
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@snowy22315 (170261)
• United States
11 Apr
@kareng Itight be windy tomorrow..not so much today.
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@GardenGerty (157629)
• United States
12 Apr
Nope. Not yesterday or last night. We did have lots of wind last weekend. I am glad you were safe.
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@RebeccasFarm (86787)
• United States
11 Apr
Oh my I am so sorry..yes we have one storm after another it seems ..but hopefully it may ease off with spring..although snow storms can be here til June in these parts.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49065)
• United States
11 Apr
We lost power for about 7 hours. Some branches down, but very blessed.
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@wolfgirl569 (95469)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Apr
Nothing like that. Just a lot of rain
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@just4him (306703)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Apr
I saw the weather map last night and saw the warnings across the south. I'm not surprised your power was out. I'm glad it came back by 4. We aren't in on your system. However, the one that hit us a few days ago had people without power for a couple of days.
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@LindaOHio (156717)
• United States
11 Apr
It wasn't too bad here. Have a good day.
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@RasmaSandra (73569)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Apr
We had a thunderstorm and heavy rain into the afternoon, Now the sun is shining, I hope you got all your services back,
