So, last Thursday night we were preparing for the major winter storm we were supposed to be receiving. Darin called Jo at work about 4:15 or so and let her know the power had been out for about 20 minutes, ok no worries, it'll be fine, we thought. Well, we thought wrong... Jo made a few deliveries then met up with Darin and Liz after work we had a quick dinner then Jo and Liz were off to enjoy a "fun" girls night with a couple friends. We sent Darin home and continued on to our night out, our "fun" had cancelled due to weather warnings, so we made a short night of it (so it didn't count against us, for those of us with spouses, of course), Jo made her way home at a very early 8:30, wow, it sure was dark on the country roads home, oh wait, there was still NO POWER! Our neighbors didn't brave the outage with us, as they all have small children, we braved the night with no heat. Brought our mattress to the living room, shut all the doors and piled the blankets on top of us and slept until about 4 am, we turned on our small "emergency" use heater and began our day. After Jo got off work at 2pm (it's friday) there was still no power and the house was way tooo cold to stay in, she was packing for a hotel stay when the power came on. She loaded the dogs up, cranked the heat and started some laundry and left for an hour to let the house warm up. We are happy to report that we have had constant power until this morning when it flickered a few times then left us again for a few hours. Although it's a blizzard outside with some major wind gusts out there, we are lucky enough to still have power!
Although a hotel stay would have been so nice, who wouldn't enjoy a hot tub and vaca from cleaning, the pocket book would like to Thank the Power company for working so diligently to restore power, because with 2 small kids (SHHHH!!! they don't get it when we call them dogs) a hotel stay costs on average $20.00 more a night.
They send Darin home from work today due to most roads being closed and conditions worsening. Walmart and a lot of stores in town were closed today due to power outages. Anyone wanna place any bets on if we make it to work tomorrow?
Good Grief! I guess you never really think about how much we depend on electricity until poof it's gone! as i started reading the post it didn't even cross my mind that you would freeze without it! i was just thinking about the whole no lights thing!!! I'm glad you didn't turn into icicles!!! So....did you make it to work?!
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