I'm getting out of Santiago for a week, I hope by the time I'm back you guys are still here

The exact same thing too. Because I have lived here my entire life and I have NEVER SEEN anything like this. I have lived thru some bad ice storms, but NOTHING like this. It was one wierd feeling to hear the sounds of hundreds of trees around you and your neighbors houses, just falling over and limbs the size of small trees come crashing down all around you, to see trees taking out light poles, like they were nothing. To see downed power lines arcing everywhere. I was pretty nervous, considering I have SEVERAL giant oak trees in my yard. I would say that, seven out of ten trees here sustained major damage. I finally got my power back yesterday, and my cable for my internet back today. I wondered what I had missed on DP. But you want to know something wierd, yesterday me and a friend drove to a neighboring town and I noticed coming back there were literally twenty or more white lines in the sky, all in a criss cross patterns, and I noticed one plane up there making them. This is a small town, with a tiny airport ( never seen a commercial plane there ) and where the plane making lines in the sky was, it was over residential areas! The lines lingered in the sky for hours. I even took a picture with my cell phone. Crazy? I am starting to believe something is going on.

Missouri. Snow and cold weather for a freezer. Gas heat and a gas cookstove saved me. Had a woodstove, just didn't have it hooked up, because I had plenty of lp gas. We used a lantern and candles for light. Scrabble and Monoply for entertainment. I refused to mortgage my property though! I just gave them what I felt like giving them or I didn't play! One of my relatives said I played communist monoply. he he. The trees here look like someone dropped an A bomb on them. I have about four ranks of wood in my back yard to cut when it dries out a little, and that's not even touching the down limbs and trees in the woods. Yeah, it got pretty bad here, you couldn't find anything useful at the stores, when people realized they were going to be without power for a while, like candles, lamp oil, generators, batteries, bottled water ect. They're still people without power in neighboring towns. I learned what it's like to rough it, the old fashioned way.