The lights are back on
We've got power again. It went out in the middle of the night on Thursday. Yesterday we thought a generator would be good idea, but we were three steps behind everyone else who had thought of that on Thursday. The papers say the 1 1/2 million people lost power during the storm. Thank you to my brother and sister-in-law for a nice, warm shower. And a huge thank you to our neighbors, four houses up, who let us run an extension cord to our house. Nick picked up 3 100' extension cords and we ran them down to our house. Then we had power for the radiant floor pump and were able to plug in our refrigerator. Last night we were able to sleep without hats and extra blankets and the power was back on at 1:00 when I got up with Atticus. Now I'm running the dishwasher and washing clothes.
We're having a holiday open house this afternoon, so it is perfect timing to have power back.
The tree is still standing, but once everyone else has taken care of their downed trees, we're going to have an arborist look at it. They say many of the trees were weakened because of the storm, so we want to check it out.
Here's to good wishes for calm weather for everyone- it sure seemed like mother nature was mad about something!