I just got my internet sattalite defrosted, so the Internet is working here again. It was slow rain until yesterday around noon, then the temperature dropped an we were getting big sloppy wet snow globs, not really flakes. It continued on until about 5pm, then slowed down to a fine mist dry snow. Then the power went out. After about an hour, I decided to go to Domecom 3 and got the wood stove fired up and got out the candles and flashlights. I had checked in with Frank, an old vet who lives up on the ridge across from us who hates the world and everyone in it. He was glad I checked in with him and was ok. Right at dark I slipped the Ranger into super low 4WD and crept down the driveway, took about 15 minutes and checked in with the other neighbors. Neighbor down the valley on right had gone to get his generator and had fell, i found him covered with snow. He had fell and couldn't get back up. His son in law and I carried back back in. He is ok but I probably saved his life as his son I law just said he was out back working on the generator. He has gone back into his shed about 100 ft behind his trailer to get some tools, and I found him on his stomach about 10 ft from the shed covered in snow. I got him up and ran to get the useless son in law to help carry him back. Then I went to the neighbor on the bottom of my driveway, they had no heat so I brought them down my propane heater I save for backup and lent it to him. Ranger drove right up the driveway with no slipping in reg 4WD. I love that truck. I then took us to Domecon 2 and fired up the 7000wt Ginny and ran in the extension cords to run some heaters and the other stuff if we had an extended outage. The power came back on about 9:30 pm, bring all my fun to a halt. We are currently now at Domecom 4 with 1/2 inch of ice, covered with about 3 inches of snow. Hasn't melted any to day, so I had to go out with a ladder and hairdryer to defrost both of the sattalite dishes. Still keeping the stove stoked with wood. Domeguy...signing out.
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