We didn't plan for this to happen

Winter Weather Woes

Last week a severe ice storm affected our area and we lost power for several days. It was getting colder and colder in our house and on the second day we decided to try to get a hotel room since we had heard rumors that it could take up to a week to restore our electricity. If had just been me and Chris, I wouldn’t have worried so much. We would have just bundled up and dealt with it. But since we have Cadence now I didn’t want to take the chance that she could get sick, so we called around.

Two of the hotels in our town had no power, and the third was booked since the electric company sent in a troop of workers from surrounding areas to fix the electric problem, and they had taken all of the available rooms! Finally we thought of the bed and breakfast about a block away from our house. It’s this old Victorian mansion that’s gorgeous and I always wanted to see the inside, but not under those circumstances. They had one room left so we took it. Well I wasn’t there four hours and the bed and breakfast lost power! So I was wandering the corridors of this big old house with the creaking wood floors by candle light and I felt like I was in a Scooby Doo episode. Luckily they still had heat so we were toasty warm, actually, at one point I woke up because I was hot.

The storm was scary because there was about two inches of ice covering everything. Trees were overturning from the weight and huge branches were cracking off (it sounded kind of like a gun shot, I heard it every day) and were tearing down the power lines.

Finally the situation was corrected but for a while there I really started to worry! Everything was closed and dark and it was kind of like a ghost town. It made me realize not to take the simple things for granted.