The Snowstorm Aftermath

The snow came and was beautiful....then it froze and that is when the problems began!

The poor trees, laden with fallen snow, grew heavier under the weight of the ice and one by one, snapped.  The power outages started Wednesday and the amount of people without power grew to well over 250,000. And to make matters even worse, the wind picked up Friday night.  

We lost power Wednesday night and were lucky enough to get it back on Thursday morning.  I walked cookies out to the linemen to thank them.  Wish I could have handed them each a hot coffee!   Then those tree limbs began their destruction and were falling everywhere.  The power went out again Thursday about 3:00 pm.   Looking around the neighborhood, we knew it would be awhile before we would have power again.  Every yard has tree limbs down and there were snapped power lines all over.

Thanks to a big, diesel generator we stayed warmish and had 'luxuries' many didn't like lights, TV, a working refrigerator and heaters to warm the house.  I counted my blessings many times over for that generator, especially with the boys. We didn't have hot water but we did have the motor home.  So Chris turned on the hot water heater in there and we took nice, long, hot showers!

Finally, after nearly 48 hours of outage #2, the power returned and we cheered!  It had been a long couple of days, even with the blessing of a generator.

No school all week for Cannon or myself.  What an adventure.  Lots of great and interesting moments.  Lots of memories.

Enjoying every moment.