O'Brien Truckers vs. Mother Nature

She won

So we got a foot of snow (1st time ever in Oct.)

Well it's done a whole bunch of damage around here - made Irene look like a woosssy summer shower.

No phone or electricity - probably till the end of the week.

If you need anything all 508-248-1555 and leave a message we're still shipping stuff.

Happy Truckin!

Dennis & Sue

 

I feel for ya.In 91 we ended up with around 19 inches on Halloween weekend and then another 24 after that.Sure made for some great sleddin but has a long hard winter.

 

Dennis, I hope your power is back on soon. My daughter in Lancaster is suppossed to get it back Tues. morning.
We got 27 inches up here is Windsor but it was a dry powdery snow over a wet base,so we lucked out.No power loss.

Take care, Glenn

 

Stay warm!!

 

Don't ya love global warming

 

Whazzatt...??? I've heard of "global" warming, but not the other...Al Gore have something to do with that one too...???

Hang in Dennis...it'll warm up around May or so...

R-

 

I am glad you did not get hurt and sorry about the bad weather. Just try and remeber or phone conversation last week about hawaii. Can't wait to see the package show up in the mail. Let us here on the HAMB know if there is anything we can to help out. Oh by the way it goin to be 80 today and blue sky.

 

it's too early for snow

 

Hang in there Dennis. We're all pulling for ya!

 

You got lots of trees there, did you lose many of them? Good luck Dennis!!
See ya around, Mike

 

I'm glad you guys are all OK in spite of what the storm left you with, or without...hang in there and keep your chins up!!

 

Good luck,Dennis.
Must have been like cement.We lucked out and were on the northern fringe.Just a dusting.
Hope things get fixed quickly.

 

Nice to see you still have the comfort of net access and the HAMB.

Believe it or not I got sunburnt a week ago whilst out at an event and then had to turn on the heaters this week and we are in Spring.

 

Hunker Down Dennis . Be Safe
Inlaws in Springfield area, got hammered, lost alot of trees, no power until Nov 5th.

 

No damaged lines in my part of town, but power was out 36 hours. No woodstove or generator, so last night was miserable. I actually opened the doors and windows today to let it warm up in there.

Got it back at mid afternoon today and had been planning on sleeping in the shop next to the woodstove.

2 major power outs in two months. Now we will put 2 spare woodstoves in the house AND buy a generator as soon as they can be found around here.

Connecticut Light and Power was already being investigated for the prior mismanagement of the last storm.

 

Looks like you got it worse than us up here in east central Ma. We "only" got about 7" or so, but we lost a lot of limbs and bushes. Fitchburg swap is a long long way off...

 

Im only about 20 miles west of his location and i am sure it is bad there.

We just had a tornado rip through the area and now this. Oh and there was Irene too. Trees are down everywhere, its a mess. Could be 5-7 days without power. Several entire towns dont have power.

 

I guess we got outta Dodge just in time.We left Tewksbury on Wednesday morning to come back home and it was a little cool but still nice driving weather.Was going to give you a shout when we went past the Charlton exit but my phone wouldn't get a signal.The whole week before was great.
We did hit some snow in upstate New York(around Cuba)but it wasn't sticking.I've tried calling my son(he lives in Lowell) but haven't got through yet.
Hang in there Dennis and hope to talk with you soon.

 

The word is no power for about a week here. Winter ****s and being about 7 weeks early ****s even more. The cities even cancelled Halloween for all the trick or treaters.


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4th day without power. Thankfully, I have a generator. But obtaining fuel is an absolute nightmare...

 

I'm in CT, most of the area is without power. I have power, but I'm on the same (priority) grid as the hospital down the street. We have been letting friends take showers, check email, etc.

Talk about an instant winter. I need to move back to So Cal, geesh

 

Damn, don't like the sound of all that snow - some reckon we get NY weather a fortnight later! Hope you all get through it OK.

 

"We got 27 inches up here is Windsor but it was a dry powdery snow over a wet base,so we lucked out." Damn, Glenn! And yet some may wonder why I'm down here in NC and not still in the Berkshires... Best to you and Bill Popp. vic

 

Bummer kids, best of luck getting some juice back on. Way to early for this weather, but Ma Nature can be tricky. Put another log on the fire!! ~sololobo~

 

hope you get power back soon! Mine goes out when it "looks like rain", 10.5KW generator on the carport.

 

Im glad you guys didnt suffer any major damage ,we had a bad Oct storm here in Buffalo in 2006 lots of damage and power loss i know what you are going through,Thoughts and prayers for all affected from The Lost Kustoms cc

 

OK, we're back on line - finally!

We got juice a couple of days ago but just got Internet access back ten minutes ago so here I am checking on the HAMB

We lost a couple dozen trees but they luckily all fell the right way.

Per this morning's newspaper 24% of the homes in our town were without electricity - but that's a lot better than other M***. and Conn. towns, some of which are ~100% without electricity 6 days after the storm (it started snowing here around 8 PM last Saturday the 29th of October.)

Thanks to my smartphome we were able to access and manually process orders received off our new web site and the phone so business has been proceeding OK. A few plaque orders were a few days late because the foundry lost electricity too - but we're up and running now.

Thanks for all the encouraging words...

Happy Truckin',

Dennis & Sue

 

Glad all is okay Brain.

 

Dennis,,,we have some good foundries here in Texas...maybe a move south in your future....no more snow worries...Plus the ROUNDUP...

 

Glad to hear, Dennis! My sis over in Monson is still without!