On Thursday (Feb 25), at 10:25 pm, we lost power. The wind had picked up and I wondered if we'd lose it and we did.
After the ice storm in Dec '08, where we felt so vulnerable, Johnny looked and waited to find a generator at a decent price. He found one last summer on sale and bought it. I was somewhat annoyed by the $$ spent when there were other things we could spend that $$ on.
Well, now....I am so grateful that he did buy it! He hooked it up right away on Thur night, having a feeling that we'd be powerless for longer than just a few hours.
The generator he bought is able to keep our fridge and heat running. We were able to make coffee and use our microwave, plug in our phones and thankfully, run our sump pump....had it not been running, our basement would have flooded.
Johnny had gone out right away to help out at the fire dept. While he was gone, I was lying in bed and the wind was scary! I almost grabbed the kids and hit the basement but did not. Branches were hitting the front of the house and the wind was so loud and strong, I thought for sure the windows would be blown through!
Johnny said the town was like a war zone. He couldn't believe it. He said he had to drive all over to get anywhere because trees and wires were down and all over the roads. Trees were uprooted. Trees were through rooves for some people.
It was a long few days but at 9:00 on Saturday night, power to us was restored! Not so for many of our friends and a lot of our town. School is closed today...March 1st, due to no power in some of the schools, but also roads still being unsafe for driving.
We had winter break last week so one more day off for the kids. Not thrilled but not complaining either.
Feels good to have power and hoping today's winds don't cause anymore outages!
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