HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
A freakish Nor'easter came our way over the Halloween weekend. There was a prediction all week prior to the storm that it was gonna be a biggin', and of course we don't usually get these kinds of storms so early and don't always get what the weather predictors say we'll get, so most of us here on the East Coast had that, "I'll believe it when I see it," kind of attitude.
This is what driving home was like Saturday afternoon!
Visibility was awful and with leaves on trees, they were bound to come down on wires, making driving a bit frightful!
We came home to a house without power, which in our case means no flushing toilets and no heat source. It is now Tuesday and things are pretty much the same. Except, I am currently using the free WiFi at Starbucks and meeting some very nice people to spend the day with...not much chatting, but sharing tables and general niceties in such adverse conditions. Even got a free Frappiccino yesterday!
We've had some generator power to keep the fridge running and work a small ceramic space heater, candles, a grill to use and lots of blankets for this crazy, cold weather.
Water is an ever increasing worry...with my animals - three dogs and five indoor cats, four barn cats, a horse, a potbelly pig and 13 chickens...there's always the risk that we'll run out of what we normally have saved & bottled in such circumstances. So far, the snow is coming in handy.
Damage has been substantial to trees. We've lost some branches on our own trees.
However, it's the tall, yet young oaks that line our neighbor's property that have come down on our electric fence...devastating, really.
According to our power company, it'll take till Thursday to get us back up and running...so, I guess I'll be hanging here at Starbucks or maybe the library for the next few days!
Friends are dear and offering info on where showers are being given and offering their homes for such hygiene tasts and hot meals.
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