We are home and the temperature is a balmy 60 F on the first floor.
The ice storm over 2 days Fri - Sat De 20 - 21 collapsed tree branches and hydro lines.
Sun De 22 - woke to no electrical power. We were able to cook and the downstairs den was 69 F. Dark at 4: 30 P and went to dinner w/ the neighbours
Mon De 23 - getting cool 55 F on the first floor , we were still toughing it out Ate out again
Tu De 24 - Ugh , temperature is now below 50 F inside , the fun is dying fast. Out to dinner again
We De 25 - gave in, 40 F in the living quarters was too cold - accepted an invite to M's friends , opened gifts and stayed in a warm place
Th De 26 - out for boxing Day dinner ( turkey etc ) and crashed at the Holiday Inn along w/ 4oo hundred others in the same boat.
Fr De 27 - on the way to brekkies in the HI , received the text ' power is back '. Actually , missed the text that said ' hydro trucks moving on the street '.
We are home !!!!
Freezers needed weeding out of everything that thawed and shouldn't have. We are still cleaning and re-arranging items moved or appropriated in order to live in 1 room.
TV is on playing the usual garbage , we are loving it
What did we learn :
We are not 1/2 as tough as we think we are
We get bored easily
Life happens and you get by
Wow . what great philosophical lessons
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