Around the corner from my mom's house - this was a VERY common site all around town!
The local IGA grilling their meat on Monday before it went bad!
The Home City Ice Truck making a delivery Monday afternoon! You could only pay in cash in the store and then had to wait in line for the man to throw you a bag of ice off the truck!
The generator we got on Monday afternoon from a friend! We spent the next several days rotating ours and our neighbors' fridges. It came just in time and we were able to save most of the food!
By the third day of the outage LARGE generators like this one began rolling into town. This generator went to one of the local gas stations! Once they were back up and running things relaxed quite a bit since we were able to get fuel once again!
The local Kroger store which sat empty nearly all week and lost everything! As did the Super Walmart, which received power a few days into the mess, but still lost EVERYTHING in a fridge or freezer!
A common site around town! If the poles didn't fall, most of them were leaning in the direction that the wind blew!
The debris pile at the local park! They have a lot of chipping to do!!!