And no hope of either for at least a week, maybe two. But we have considerable amounts of firewood. So please, if you need some, stop by. Though power and water crews have been working 18-hour shifts, in rural areas power outages and frozen water lines and pipes have plagued the north country since severe ice storms swept through there two weeks ago.
Poles are still down in the roads.
This was nine days after the initial emergency. A PDA consultant, the Rev. John Robinson Jr. of Highland Memorial Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Va., is scheduled to meet with Presbyterians in Potsdam, N.Y., Feb. 2, to begin coordinating long-term ecumenical relief work and to help with initial damage assessment. Some of them are continuing with no power. Part of the problem is they've had to spill an awful lot of milk. Since milk prices were already down through the summer and fall, the current losses have many dairy farmers worried, said Presbyterian Barbara Fisher of Madrid, N.Y., who operates a large dairy farm with her husband, Max, and who works for the local Farm Bureau.