electricity out

Very Bad Weather Here Tuesday

@kareng (80243)

United States

June 5, 2024 9:59pm CST

I didn't get to post yesterday because when we got home from picking up hubby's compressor, we had NO electricity! A storm blew through and left quite a large area without electricity late yesterday afternoon. Ours stayed out all night long and did not come back on until around 11 am this morning. I also learned that a tornado went along Hwy. 24 from Gloster (east of me to McComb which is west of me). Some of those people are going to be without power for several days, due to the number of trees down on power lines. I had boutique duty today, so left right after the electricity came back on. I decided to get ready and go and relieve the morning worker early because her husband had a stroke this past Saturday. Have you had any bad storms pass through your area lately or tornadoes? Photo Credit: Pixabay, Public Domain

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@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 24

It's annoying being without electricity. I always think it would be a good time to catch up on the ironing (when I used to have ironing) but then I'd realise I didn't have electricity!

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Right and I don't think you would want to do it with spray bottle and corn starch!!

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@paigea (36143)

• Canada

7 Jun 24

Same. Only for me it was the vacuuming I would think I could do.

We don't have water when the power goes off, so limited what we can get done.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

@paigea Right!!

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@Deepizzaguy (122067)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

6 Jun 24

My area in Lake Charles had to deal with a tornado that knocked out telephone and internet for about two days and nights about two months ago. Electric power was knocked out for about one hour.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

I think that was the same one that got my daughter's area in Erwinville!! That's rough with our heat!

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

8 Jun 24

Very true!

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@Deepizzaguy (122067)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

7 Jun 24

@kareng It could have been since the tornado struck in the college campus area of Lake Charles before it vanished.

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@shaggin (74988)

• United States

7 Jun 24

How sad your one workers husband has had a stroke. Did anything ruin when you were without electricity overnight? So sad for the people who will be without it for days.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

9 Jun 24

@shaggin Exactly!

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Yes, he seems to be recovering well though. No, we were lucky and had a lot of stuff in there. That helped keep it all cold longer. I think a few more hours though and we would have been tossing things.

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@shaggin (74988)

• United States

8 Jun 24

@kareng that’s very good news especially with the cost of food now

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@moffittjc (128824)

• Gainesville, Florida

8 Jun 24

All of this severe weather happening, and none of it seems to be reaching Florida (or at least where I am). We are in desperate need of rain. I hate to say this--because it will spike our humidity levels to unbearable levels--but we really need our rainy season to start!

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

9 Jun 24

I'll try to send you some!! It's been nice here since that storm on Tuesday. We still have a lot of wet spots in the yard though.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

11 Jun 24

@moffittjc That was us last year!!

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@moffittjc (128824)

• Gainesville, Florida

10 Jun 24

@kareng Please send some! Our poor plants and trees are parched!

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

6 Jun 24

I'm sorry you were without electricity and had a tornado pass through. We had a bad storm a week or so ago. We learned there were two tornado touchdowns. One just south of Green Bay, about a half hour. And the other up in Door County, about an hour + from here.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

The weather has been horrible all over these last few weeks.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

7 Jun 24

@kareng I'm sorry it has. We've had rain almost every day.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

9 Jun 24

@just4him We have had a couple of pretty days in a row now. We needed it to dry out after that last big storm on Monday. We still have some wet areas in the yard, but hubby managed to get the yard mowed today.

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Gayle Harrelson

@2ndchances24 (12188)

• Cloverdale, Indiana

6 Jun 24

We haven't had any bad storms the past few wks but we did get some heavy rain last night which is good for the new flowers I have just bought.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

8 Jun 24

@2ndchances24 We were like that a couple of years ago with the rain. Everyone all around us got rain...except us!!

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Glad your area got skipped. It's been crazy here, one after the other. Now I have another big yard clean up to do!

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Gayle Harrelson

@2ndchances24 (12188)

• Cloverdale, Indiana

7 Jun 24

@kareng Around this time of yr most storms or bad weather goes around us, it's like interstate 70 separates the weather.

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@wolfgirl569 (135583)

• Marion, Ohio

6 Jun 24

Sorry about your coworkers husband. We had heavy rains last night but no storms. They did put out a tornado warning for about a half hour

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

He seems to be doing good! In fact, he doesn't remember it as it happened. Glad you didn't get really bad weather or a tornado near by!!

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (69156)

• Centralia, Washington

6 Jun 24

Scary! We had a wind and rain storm the other night but not like that.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Widespread storms all over. That is scary!!

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@paigea (36143)

• Canada

7 Jun 24

Tornado touched down about 30 km from me on Monday. It damaged one house. We had amazing clouds, and steadily rolling thunder. But no rain or wind.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Wow, that is scary!! Are tornadoes common up that way?

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

8 Jun 24

@paigea We live in an area that is called "tornado alley" here. They are very common!

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@paigea (36143)

• Canada

7 Jun 24

@kareng Damaging ones are few and far between as there's lots of wIde open space here. Ones that tear through a large area are fairly rare. We have many tornado watches throughout the summer.

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@LindaOHio (222222)

• United States

6 Jun 24

We haven't had any bad storms or tornadoes. Knock on wood.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Good! I think all of the others make up for it!

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@dya80dya (36805)

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7 Jun 24

We had a storm recently, but it wasn't severe. We don't have tornadoes here.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

9 Jun 24

Glad it wasn't a bad one!! Where do you live?

@jefferson126 (3670)

• Shenzhen, China

6 Jun 24

Glad to know the electric power came back to you,storm really can cut off power.It always rains these days,but luckily there is not rain storm.be careful of rain storm,take care.

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@kareng (80243)

• United States

7 Jun 24

Yes, we seem to be having more than usual this year.

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