Your Storm Stories

Two common themes that emerged this week were of neighbors helping one another and people taking extra ordinary measures to weather the storm.

We asked readers for some of their neighborhood heros from last week, and also some of the things they had to do to get through the storm intact:

Here’s a sampling: Gary McIlroy said: “Lori at Monument Hill Water got 5 gallon jugs of water for all customers multiple times. Heck of a coordination and distribution. Thank you!”

Denise Woodyard said: “After a pipe broke very early on my water well I collected snow and freezing rain for toilet flushing and dog water. I will gladly give up my pioneer woman status for a long hot bath!! A huge thanks to all the responders that have braved this record cold to restore power, water and keep our roads passable.”

She also shared this photo of those dogs drinking melted snow:

Lisa Kay Baker said:

“Thankfully we had only a short power outage in Fayetteville however our pipes froze and broke at our well house. My very sharp husband Phil Baker repaired/patched the pipes that led to the house so that we could have water. We had to put extra insulation outside (used hay) and heaters in the attic to get water flowing, but after a long Saturday, we had water in the house! However, pipes were also busted to the frozen water troughs for our cows. We pumped water from well house and then hauled out to the cows in empty molasses buckets. We all made it through just fine.”

Here’s photos of Lisa and her husband hauling water to the cows: