Re: My Chieftan project
Wow, what a week so far. I am sure many of you have seen on the news the ice storm in the midwest. Unfortunately we were victims of this icy disaster in our end of Michigan. We were awoken Sunday morning by a loud bang on the roof above our bedroom. Got up and looked out the back patio door and all I could see was ice and branches by the deck ( too dark yet to see). When it got light enough to see,,,,,oh my, limbs and tree tops falling all around us and more freezing rain falling. Lost power around 6:30am. Got a small generator from work on Monday but it wasn't powerful enough to run our furnace so my Mr. Heater Buddy had to suffice. Tuesday a buddy of mine offered up his larger generator and although quite a bit more powerful seems these new fangled furnaces are tempermental about fluctuating voltage from the generator so it would occasionally run it. But at least we had some light and were able to watch the news to try and get some idea on when to expect power return.
Moved family Xmas over to my daughters as we did not have power this morning but finally came back on little after 2:00pm today. At least we have a nice looking and smelling tree in the house although never got decorated.
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas and I salute the folks that helped restore power to the thousands in our area that were out.
One of 2 trees over our drive.
Tough to fish with that much ice on the downriggers.
The Chief remained unscathed from the falling branches.
