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Checking in - Isabel
We were in the Cayman's when Isabel hit. Got back on the following Saturday
to find one big tree on top of three smaller trees next to our pond but not on the pond. We did not get electricity back until the following Tuesday evening. The pond fish seemed OK but my tank fish were hurting. I had their airstone plugged into a battery back-up pump but it only lasts 22 hrs. There were no battery operated pumps to be found anywhere.....even online. Our neighbor on Monday offered to let us plug into one line on his generator so, we chose our pond pump. We plugged in an outdoor extension outlet to his generator, plugged in our pond pump to that and then ran an extension cord from the outlet into the house for the tank fish. They have all made it, thanks to our neighbor. We will be getting a generator so, that this never happen again. Now, we have to finish cutting up the 18+ trees that have uprooted or have been taken down by the other trees. We had a mini-forest behind our house, now we have a glen. At least our pond and fish survived. Kathy "FBCS" wrote in message ... I had a trying 24hrs. with no power. I prayed for my fish to make it through. My DH ran around town looking for a generator with non to be found a friend provided a mini ac/dc adapter to connect to the battery of the car to run aerator. The wetones had been w/o water movement for 14 hrs already. The power came on about 1 hr ago and the fish were dancing in the fall stream of water. We had many trees down, I live 1/2 mile off the main road. DH took off at daybreak with the dozer and chain saws. I was able to keep all in prespective and know many had it much worse than we. The storm had lost much of it's punch by the time it got here (So. MD), but it was still the worst I had ever remembered for this area. My heart goes out to those in No. Car take took the brunt of the impact. Joann |
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