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Vendaval -> Power outages and ice storm, MidWest-Eastern states (1/31/2009 7:21:49 PM)
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Keep warm and safe folks and if you can volunteer for the Red Cross or other emergency services please lend a hand. Millions of people are still without power and the death toll is rising.
Life after ice storm dire, getting worse in spots
By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press Writer – Fri Jan 30, 8:59 pm ET
"MARION, Ky. – In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.
At least 42 people have died, including 11 in Kentucky, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. About a million people were still without electric Friday, and with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm_outages
The Kentucky National Guard have been called up and FEMA is assiting state officials.
"KY deploys full Army Nat'l Guard for storm cleanup"
By BRUCE SCHREINER and BETSY TAYLOR, Associated Press Writers Bruce Schreiner And Betsy Taylor, Associated Press Writers – 30 mins ago "More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained without electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway. Finding fuel — heating oil along with gas for cars and generators — was another struggle for those trying to tough it out at home, with hospitals and other essential services getting priority over members of the public.
The addition of 3,000 soldiers and airmen makes 4,600 Guardsmen pressed into service. It's the largest call-up in Kentucky history, which Beshear called an appropriate response to a storm that cut power to more than 700,000 homes and businesses, the state's largest outage on record. Many people in rural areas cannot get out of their driveways due to debris and have no phone service, the governor said."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
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