I am happy to say we have power. Ecstatically happy.
I'm not so happy to say that many of our town, and nearby towns, do not.
We do not have cable, Internet, or home phone, so we didn't know how to find out of there was church yesterday without driving over to see.
It was cancelled.
School is cancelled. We have been told that most areas should not expect to receive power until Thursday. Yikes!
The teen has decided to sleep all day because he is bored out of his skull.
There are so many trees down. It's amazing. And seems much worse than the aftermath of Irene. The power outages from that are so fresh in the minds of everyone here. I don't think anyone was really up for round two. I know I certainly wasn't. Our lights started flickering on Saturday and all I could do was hold my breath and pray, "Oh God, please have mercy. I can't take the kids out to the backyard to poop in the snow." ha
I really feel for those without power because it's cold. Like in the 30's at night kind of cold. Not good for babies and kids who can't keep covers on. Not too much fun for crews out trying to restore power either.
And let's not forget how early it gets dark this time of year. Yeah. 5:30 and it's dark with nothing to do. Yippee.
Like I said...I'm deliriously happy to have power.
I'm using some kind of AT&T apparatus to get Internet but it's slow as a snail (think dial-up) so I'm not sure how many pictures I will have the patience to upload, but I'll give it a try.
I drove around yesterday taking photos because....well...despite the awfulness of the situation, the color of the leaves set against a back drop of snow is quite beautiful. It definitely made me think of the Majesty of the Creator and how all this beauty was just a little foretaste of heaven.
{OK--scratch the picture idea. They won't upload. When we get Internet back, I'll post some.}
