Violent Storm Knocked Out Internet and Cable
@BelleStarr (61102)
United States
October 31, 2017 8:49am CST
I was one of the lucky ones in my town, I only lost my cable and Internet from the violent storm we experienced on Sunday into Monday. The wind was so strong it was shaking my winds and it was hard to sleep. I had no cable and Internet when I woke up Monday morning but our lights were still on.
We tried to go out to our swim class but after trying 3 different roads, we turned around and came back home, all of them were blocked either by trees or downed lines.
Yesterday afternoon we found a route out but tried to come home a different way and could not get through. Our town looks like a war zone. Why I still have power I have no idea but I am grateful. My friend who lives about a mile away has no power and my daughter's whole town is out. Both of them have generators as do we.
So I just got it back 10 minutes ago and I decided I would pop on quickly and explain why I was not around yesterday and tell everyone that I will be catching up with all the comments as soon as I can. The photo is one of the many trees that are down near us.
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23 responses
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
Yes we just lost our internet again for about an hour but hopefully that is it.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
1 Nov 17
@BelleStarr not sure how long ours was.We have a generator back up.
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@Marilynda1225 (82681)
• United States
31 Oct 17
I saw that your part of the US got hit badly by that storm. They were even showing a house floating down the river
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
I have never seen anything like it that wasn't a hurricane, it was a very strong storm and the amount of rain was phenomenal.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
Yes the results are very like a hurricane. I have never seen the like.
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@LadyDuck (471217)
• Switzerland
6 Nov 17
@BelleStarr Yesterday we had a strong thunderstorm, I have never seen a thunderstorm in November.
@DianneN (247186)
• United States
31 Oct 17
So glad you are safe and okay. It was a nasty storm. We were fortunate not to have any downed trees or lose power. The electric company has been wonderful all summer and fall trimming and removing trees on all the trees that pose a threat in our town. We just hired a tree removal company to take down five Mothers here. So happy they didn't fall on our home! The rain we needed. We had our lawn irrigated and seeded. My husband was getting darn tired of moving hoses and sprinklers around.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
We need to get our tree man to do some removals for us, there are some other limbs that look rather precarious.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
4 Nov 17
@BelleStarr We are having five monsters removed Monday.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
My daughter has her power back and we lost ours for a while today but it is back now. Still a lot of trees down all over the place.
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Nov 17
@BelleStarr I'm glad you both have it back. I hope the trees get cleared soon.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
@YrNemo Yes we realize that now, we had no idea that huge branch had come down, it is hidden from our sight in the house.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
After we looked at our far backyard, there are a couple of huge limbs down and they just missed our shed.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
31 Oct 17
wow. looks like after the hurricane here. weird. glad you are okay
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Thanks yes and that is just one of the trees down, they are all over the place.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Thank you, yes it was one of the worse storms I have ever seen and heard.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Yes thank you, though we lost our power for an hour 15 minutes tonight, it was quite annoying given that it is Halloween and the kids had not finished trick or treating.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
So far it doesn't seem to have cleared, we had to go out the same way we found yesterday and we checked some of the other streets
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
I have never felt a storm as violent as this that wasn't a hurricane. It was terrifying.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
1 Nov 17
@BelleStarr that is awful, I am glad it didn't cause damage to your home.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
Yes it did seem like that but it was the same storm that gave all the snow to the upper midwest.
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@goodgirl_kakay (453)
• Philippines
31 Oct 17
good thing is you are safe, and keep safe still
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
Thank you yes, I am glad that we didn't have any damage.
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@goodgirl_kakay (453)
• Philippines
31 Oct 17
@BelleStarr you are most welcome! glad to know you are okay.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
Luckily the storm itself happened overnight so we didn't have to stay in because of it except that the roads were blocked.
@m_audrey6788 (58472)
• Germany
31 Oct 17
Oh shocks! I think we had something like that last sunday here and it got our landline affected. I hope everything will be fix soon! Take care! 
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Thank you, we lost power for over an hour this evening but we have it back now.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
31 Oct 17
It's good to hear you are well and safe though.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
Thank you, the winds were so violent that I couldn't sleep but thankfully none of our trees came down, only branches.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
2 Nov 17
ohh dear ... i'm glad you've got your Internet back... and didn't suffer any damage to your property... 
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
A few large branches down and the grandsons came over Saturday with a truck and chain saw and cut the wood and took it to the dump.
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@DeborahDiane (40288)
• Laguna Woods, California
2 Nov 17
@BelleStarr - I'm so sorry the storm was so bad in your area. I hope things improve quickly (at least more quickly than what is happening in Puerto Rico!)
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
It took as much as three days for some residents in our town to get their power back but of course, we have a much better infrastructure than Puerto Rico.
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@DeborahDiane (40288)
• Laguna Woods, California
6 Nov 17
@BelleStarr - I hope they basically rebuild a much better and stronger infrastructure for Puerto Rico so it can withstand future storms and give people a safer source of electricity. I'm surprised they aren't distributing little solar units to people, like they have in Africa, so at least people could have a little light at night. It is ridiculous that everyone is in the dark.
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Oct 17
I could never survive weather like that.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Oct 17
It was really scary but you have other things like mudslides and the terrible fires so I guess there really is no place that is weather trouble free.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Nov 17
Big damage ...Hope a lot of it has been restored by now
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
5 Nov 17
Everything back to normal in our neck of the woods.
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