Headquarters and all of the lands around Headquarters were attacked by a vicious storm this week and we are just now getting to a place where we have power and heat and a chance to record this ridiculousness.
We really hope that you were not touched by the tumult of Super-storm Sandy – as – she was particularly unpleasant.
Were you in the storm? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com – because – we want to bond with you.
That storm was a bear.
About This Episode
In this episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar recounts his harrowing experience surviving a major storm that knocked out power at Bumpercar headquarters for nearly a week. Natty describes the chaos of flying shutters, broken windows, mysterious crashes in the night, and exploding transformers that lit up the sky like fireworks. After frantically checking his vehicles in the dark by tapping each window, he and his wife endured three days without power before finally evacuating north to safety. This exhausted but relieved episode gives listeners a firsthand account of weathering a serious storm and the confusion that comes with it.
Memorable Quotes
“The shutter flew off the house and then flew back into the house and crash smash bang clang cling glass everywhere broken glass everywhere.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I ran around each car and I would just tap each window tap tap tap tap as I was running in circles around the car to make sure that the windows were intact.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“It sounds like there's trains going by your house and the explosions was the craziest part—those were the transformers, not like the big hollywood production movies.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #weather #storms #poweroutage #homedamage #survivalstory #naturaldisasters
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: whoa bumper podcast this is natty bumper car and i am exhausted i don't know if you heard but we had a little touch of the weather here in the area around headquarters and by the area around headquarters i mean everywhere all around up and down here and there it was miserable uh been without power for a week now or five days i don't even know what today is uh i had to decamp and move further north uh it's very exciting time uh headquarters made out pretty well lost a few shingles had a storm window break which i guess is appropriate since it was a storm had a shutter fall off the house and uh that's what actually broke the window somehow the shutter it flew off the house and then flew back into the house and uh crash smash bang clang cling glass everywhere broken glass everywhere uh we heard broken glass we thought oh no the vehicles have been trounced by some uh tree a limb maybe maybe something flew into them so i ran out because i didn't know what else to do you know figured i'd have to put a garbage bag is that what i don't know what you do when your car window breaks but i figured that's what i was going to have to do and i went out and i couldn't really see because it was really dark and so i ran around each car and i would just tap each window tap tap tap tap as i was running in circles around the car uh to make sure that the windows were intact and they were all fine and i and i couldn't see any broken glass so i ran back in and i was like there's no broken glass i don't know what's happening and and she was like uh wifey was like no there was broken glass and i was like i don't know and then you know i ran back in and i was like there's no broken glass you know you're uh so we went to bed early because he lost power pretty early and um you're just kind of laying in bed and it's there's it's it's it sounds like there's trains going by your house like it's very loud and uh then the explosions was the craziest part uh and it turns out those were the uh the transformers they're called not like the you know big hollywood production movies but like i guess they're boxes that do things with electricity that help me to have lights and heat and such and uh but they were through the night like it was crazy and if you looked out in the clouds it was it was like a light show it was like a firework show and um we tried we stayed three days with no power and then finally uh it was too much to bear we gave up and we had to wait for the roads to be cleared and we traveled north and we're fine and we're safe and we're exhausted and weary and we hope that you are doing well as well
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