the pretty red bush in our side yard
So Yes i've been out of pocket or a few days.. and YES the state of New Hampshire is in a state of emergency but we are all GREAT!!! Thursday night (into Friday morning) we had a massave ice storm the likes of which Ben feels were worse than even what we saw in Texas or Arkansas... everything was covered in a lovely layer of clear ice which made things glissen and seem very pretty but which also wrecked havoc on everyone's electrical lines in the state.. 2 out of every 3 households did not have power we lost power after Ben left for work on Friday morning (he leaves around 2am) and didn't get it restored until around 11am Saturday.. it was a rough night but we all camped out in the living room with a sheet blocking the hall to try to keep in as much of the warm from the fireplace as we could.. this is actually the first time since moving here (to NH not just this house) that we lost power for more than an hour or so.. but on the whole we did pretty well, we had enough drinking water and food, we learned allot too.. we MUST MUST MUST buy a cord of wood or 2 when it is cheep again in the spring.. better yet Ben has grand plans to get a chain saw and cut our own from our property and do it early enough so that it will dry during the summer and be good for burning in the winter.. we need more back up games, entertainment for the kids.. they played every game we own more than twice and it was starting to get ugly by sat. morning... the only thing I hadn't gotten around to yet in this house is storing non drinking water in jugs to use to flush toilets.. see here in the sticks where you have a well and a pump no electricity also means NO WATER.. so I had to make a run to the grocery store that was running on generator to buy the last 13 gallons of DISTILLED water which wasn't 2 for a dollar like the drinking water it was a DOLLAR each.. but let me tell you i did it and paid happily.. because as ugly as it was it would have been WAY more tragic if we couldn't flush the toilet for 30 hours.. we also learned we need to look into getting a generator and maybe a fireplace insert.. see our fireplace is well just that a brick/cement enclosed with a rack for wood it does keep a fire but it doesn't really warm the room very well.. and if we got a generator we could at least run a space heater enough to warm the room and the fire could keep it warm etc..
I actually think the kids faired pretty well.. they took it on as an adventure and really only got board come sat morning when we all didn't sleep too well.. here are some pic's of our evening
above is Ben getting his clothes ready for work by flashlight
above the kids all with their beds spread on the living room floor playing monolopy... we survived but it was REALLY cold!!!
So we are all back up and running and we are grateful we were prepared.. of coarse we could do better but in all things it probably took something like this to really get us to know what we needed so i'm grateful this was a mild senario so we wern't out of luck! Keep the families in our great state in your prayers there are MANY MANY people still out of power, and they say those in the outlined areas (ALLOT of people) may not get power until the end of the week... we had a snow day Friday and today and they have already said no school tomorrow.. our elementary school still doesn't have power and with SO many roads still unpassable it is unsafe for the busses to run.. so I very well may be forgetting how greateful I am if we have too many more days off of school.. the only bright side to these days off are because the state delcared a state of emergency the state may very well forgive these days so we won't be going to school until AUGUST!!! all in all I am more grateful than anything else that we are all safe and no worse for ware!!
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