Wideload....M.I.A. ???

I think Wideload is m.i.a. I have'nt seen him on-line since they had that ice move in on them Monday night.Western & Central Ky. got hit pretty bad.Especially his neck of the woods.Called him a couple of times to check those folks out,no answer.
We have drivers that deliver that area,and bring stuff back,cause they can't get through.Said it'd be a few days before they get electric back up and running.Yesterday,I saw electric crews headed up from Alabama goin up that way to help out.
As most of ya'll know he's on here just about every day,noticed he aint been around.
Hope everthing and everybody is alright. Holler if you need anything....holler even if you don't.
See ya.

I hope hes not in that mess. We had a ice storm here before Xmas . I was lucky ,1/2 of Ft Wayne was without power. Troy was without power for almost a week, he borrowed my gen, and ran it for about 5 days. We had El crews from at least 6 states working around the clock to get the power back on.

A lot of phone and cable outages there. Sure he will let us know as soon as he is back online.... Of course we could just call Mike and see if the lines are out...

Things aren't looking too good over by there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm

Yep.
When KY deploys full Army Nat'l Guard for storm cleanup ya know it's ugly...

As above,I've tried several times to contact Mike.At first,just no answer.Now recorded message that contact cannot be reached.
I talked to some people I know east of there.They have phone as of yesterday,but no power.Will be 'a week or more' to get power to them.A very rural area.One store has power to them so provisions can be had.
Where Mike lives,is out of the city.Lot of backroads,lined with trees on either side.No tellin how power lines go through,some beside the roads,some though the woods.Trees,power & phone lines strewn on the roads.Fences are down,horses & cows are roaming with no boundries.Shelters are full.Red Cross is there with those in shelters.
Several power companies from several states are joining in to restore.As well as National Guard assisting with help & order.
With 500,000 doing without,it will be awhile before normality will come.Clean-up will take even longer.
We treat the town of Hopkinsville like a neighbor here.Local tv is doing a lot of coverage.Looks pretty bad up there folks.
Mike is about 1 1/2 hours north west of there.
I just hope those folks are ok.

Wow ,I had no idea it was so bad down there.He sent me a pm tuesday night about some parts I purchased from him.
Hope all is well ,he is probably out helping others.

mike

I drove 40 miles north of here and the lines are still laying on the ground. A lot of the area affected her in AR is the area that was hit by tha big tornado last year, it was on the ground for 131 miles without lifting!

My prayers are with Mike and the others up there.

Later,
Rip

Anyone heard from Mike yet?

Nope.Although I did call on Sunday.Phone just rang.At least its not the 'cannot be reached' recording.I'll try again this morning/today.

Thanks Moe. We want to make sure he made it through all of it ok....

Got in touch with Mike about 12 today.I was first phone call in,he didn't know it was workin.His internet loss was ironic,fiber optic was cut day before stom hit.Lost his power Tues.evening.Still no power today.He's been in his RV since.Useing generator for power for necessities [refridgerator,well pump,heat].Said his place did'nt suffer much damage,just a limb or two.Daddy-in-law had lost some trees,branch on the house,but has been cleared away.From what he tells me,quite a bit of damage around him.
Mike wanted to tell everyone 'they're fine and its been more of an inconvience than anything.Thanks for all the concern,and I'll be back on when I can.' 'Tell Don that Monkey's Eyebrow froze over.He'll know what I mean.' [Monkey's Eyebrow is a small town up there]

Great news,I was looking at some storm pics on the internet ,man they got hammered.

mike

HAHAHA, Monkey's Eyebrow froze over! Funny. Yeah, I heard the story!!!

Glad to hear everything is ok.......

Don...too funny !I was rollin when I read that.
Wanted to give further detail but I ran out of time earlier.Widload said that he was extremly lucky no more got done at his place,others were'nt.'Looks like somebody turned a helicopter upside down & cut off all the tree tops around him. The church down the road has power,a bussiness up the road has power,but he don't.' 'I've heard power trucks every night,& pass by but never stop.So I went & made a sign,pointed towards house,that read NO POWER." Seems like he's takin it all in stride pretty good.Last thing Mike told me was...'A country boy can survive!'
Maybe he'll be back to 'normal ' soon.