January 4th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Now that we’re deep into winter I know many of you are experiencing severe winter weather, ice storms and snow storms … we’re expecting our own snow storm here tomorrow morning. Not Fun …
However, as the picture above goes to show … it almost always could be worse!
Unless you just experienced a severe ice storm, most of us can only imagine, how bad it would be to go outside to see their car covered in ice … just how on earth would you get all that ice off without chipping the paint?
Heck, you’d have enough trouble getting into the car to start it!
BTW Happy New Year! Hopefully your start to the year is much better than the owner of this car’s is!
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 am
Hundreds of Midwestern Power customers and two squirrels were very unlucky one day last fall.
Apparently a squirrel came into contact with an overhead transformer and knocked out service to 177 customers. Power was restored in just under an hour, but naturally the squirrel lost it’s life. The remains were found by repair crews.
Just 40 miles away in Ironwood, Mich, another squirrel got into a substation and caused a temporary power outage that affected 1400 customers.
The power company is now thinking about what kind of steps it can take to keep curious animals away from the lines as they, along with weather, are one of the leading causes of power outages.
“We kind of liken it to anyone who’s had a bird feeder and tried to keep the squirrels out,” said the power company spokesperson. “They find a way.”
Good luck!
February 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
We’ve had some bad weather here in Toronto recently, but luckily it hasn’t been bad enough to do this!
Can you imagine being the owner of this van?
It would probably take a week to get it free of the ice! How would you get it off anyway? Pots of warm water? A fire thrower? Any other ideas?
