Hurricane Sandy- 10 Days without Power
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:58 pm
10/29/12-11/7/12. I like to start off with yes, I was not prepared... when I should have been concerning my little zebras. I live by myself so I guess in my head I was just use to worrying about if anything happens ill just leave. That being said. Being a Dpw worker didn't help my little guys either because instead of being there when my lights when out, I was working. On 10/29/12 Sandy hit Nj. My power when out that night. I got out of work at 1:30am on 10/30/12. To wake up at 6:00am checked my water it was at 73 degrees. I then took a pot and took water from the tank and began pouring it back in from a decent height for air. I punch into work at 7:00 am. I'm starting to worry bc I am not prepared and already I'm seeing the destruction Hurricane Sandy has done on the businesses. No one was open.. The chaos has begun. That whole day after finding everyone is k my main concern was my zebras. My friend luckily lend me his inverter on 10/30/12 and I had a spare car battery. I didn't get home until 11:00pm temp at this point was in the 60s. I connected the heater and filter. The battery lasted til 5:00am on 10/31/12. I woke up then I checked the temp and it was rising slowly, I kept taking water out of the tank and pouring it back in. Had to go to work and was starting to think everything would be ok if I get another battery. So I got another car battery on 10/31/12. That lasted me 4-5 hours and temp started to go down rapidly. This is on 10/31/12 at night. I'm starting to panick at this point. Everything is electric in my apartment stove included. All night I was taking water out and pouring it back in. I then went to work on 11/1/12 very worried, angry at myself I just received my females the week before and now my abides are dying. I carried both batteries with me to see if I could charge then up and went home that night with a total of 3 batteries. My co-worker gave me the 3rd one. That worked for the first couple of nights but by 11/3/12 the batteries were not not holding the charge . None of the 3. Now I haven't slept in days I'm getting real frustrated calling for battery operated pumps etc... My co-worker lend me another inverters, it was 200 watts that plugs into a ciggerette lighter. Between that and charging the car batteries at work lead me to burning out my friends inverter and getting fed up and and finally waking up to to water being so cold that I had to call my friend who just got his light back on to pick me up at 4:30 am bc the water was so cold. I picked them up a couple of days ago.
I might of left a couple of things out here and there, excuse me. I barely slept. At times I was disoriented with the frustrations at the gas line, and trying to find any thing open to eat while at work. A huge Thank You to Rod47... Thanks again brother for your help. The female is hanging around the males cave. I can only hope. He is sticking his tale out and twitching at her.
I might of left a couple of things out here and there, excuse me. I barely slept. At times I was disoriented with the frustrations at the gas line, and trying to find any thing open to eat while at work. A huge Thank You to Rod47... Thanks again brother for your help. The female is hanging around the males cave. I can only hope. He is sticking his tale out and twitching at her.