We survived. The King rode it out at the beach. On a job site he watched out the front window as the porta-potty from next door took flight and rolled down the street like a barrel. Now there's a bad job for you----the person who gets to retrieve and make that ready to use again. If that's even possible.
Thursday evening I washed both dogs in a windowless bathroom and a few minutes later I heard three consecutive booms as a tree fell on wires down the street, followed by the power going out. That was just before 7 pm. It is still out. Recording says they HOPE to have it back on by 11 pm tonight (Saturday). So far, the street is still blocked with cones about a block from here and nobody has made even the smallest effort to get the tree off of the lines. I am sooooooooo grateful I wasn't stuck in the dark in a windowless bathroom with a soapy-wet dog when the lights went out. I literally would have had to try to lift/caryy a dripping sudsy dog through the laundry room, through the dining room and stand, fumbling, on the living room carpet reaching blindly under the TV stand to get a flashlight, then reverse and go back and rinse a very unhappy dog by flashlight.
The King came home last night and dug the generator out of the shed and got it started. By then we'd lost some things in the fridge/freezer but saved everything in the chest freezer. It is fully stocked for the winter. A couple of hours later the generator made a few funky noises and stopped running. Using his first Smart Phone (had about six weeks now) he figured out it needed oil. Took some doing to find a place that had electricity and the right oil. Got it running again and ran it a couple more hours before turning it off to go to bed. Back on again this morning, this is the first time I've allowed myself to check in here. After this I'll turn the computer back off to save energy. All we're really trying to use is the fridge, freezer and I splurged this morning and used the microwave for a minute and fifteen seconds.
Thursday I had JUST put supper on the stove when the power went out. It was my first real supper since he left for the beach last Sunday. I'd been living on sandwiches, salad and cereal.
I'm glad he's home. He's glad he's home. The dogs are DELIRIOUS that he's home. I wonder if it's going to be even harder for us to watch him leave again tomorrow.
Hope everyone here weathered to storm okay. I'll be back whenever the lights come back on!
Thursday evening I washed both dogs in a windowless bathroom and a few minutes later I heard three consecutive booms as a tree fell on wires down the street, followed by the power going out. That was just before 7 pm. It is still out. Recording says they HOPE to have it back on by 11 pm tonight (Saturday). So far, the street is still blocked with cones about a block from here and nobody has made even the smallest effort to get the tree off of the lines. I am sooooooooo grateful I wasn't stuck in the dark in a windowless bathroom with a soapy-wet dog when the lights went out. I literally would have had to try to lift/caryy a dripping sudsy dog through the laundry room, through the dining room and stand, fumbling, on the living room carpet reaching blindly under the TV stand to get a flashlight, then reverse and go back and rinse a very unhappy dog by flashlight.
The King came home last night and dug the generator out of the shed and got it started. By then we'd lost some things in the fridge/freezer but saved everything in the chest freezer. It is fully stocked for the winter. A couple of hours later the generator made a few funky noises and stopped running. Using his first Smart Phone (had about six weeks now) he figured out it needed oil. Took some doing to find a place that had electricity and the right oil. Got it running again and ran it a couple more hours before turning it off to go to bed. Back on again this morning, this is the first time I've allowed myself to check in here. After this I'll turn the computer back off to save energy. All we're really trying to use is the fridge, freezer and I splurged this morning and used the microwave for a minute and fifteen seconds.
Thursday I had JUST put supper on the stove when the power went out. It was my first real supper since he left for the beach last Sunday. I'd been living on sandwiches, salad and cereal.
I'm glad he's home. He's glad he's home. The dogs are DELIRIOUS that he's home. I wonder if it's going to be even harder for us to watch him leave again tomorrow.
Hope everyone here weathered to storm okay. I'll be back whenever the lights come back on!
Where are we going and why am I in this hand basket?
