I have been missing from my blog for over a week. What happened? A major snowstorm in this area caused everyone big problems. I had my share...
1. The Electric power went out on Sunday Feb 24th. I live out in a rural area, so that means, no water, no TV, no Internet, no appliance's working, and the only heat is the fireplace wood stove insert.
2. The road was not plowed, and the snow was 36" deep. Plowing was done on Feb 27, 3 days later. There are trees down and wires too.
3. The major state highway was completely closed, in both directions for 3 days, and they went out of the way to keep the up-to-date information from the local people.
4. There was a terrible lack of information available. There were actually emergency services available... however there was no way we could access the information. It appears that they were relying on cell phones with facebook.
5. There is no cell phone reception in my area. The only carrier that had service was Verizon.
Here is what was good, we had plenty of food, drinking water that I have stashed, propane cooking available, one small generator to run the refrigerator, and a swimming pool of water for flushing toilets and washing.
The snow plowed road finally gave us the ability to get more gas, diesel, and water. Mid-week the local town got some electric service back to limited areas, and we had a meal in town. A couple, whom we are friends with in town asked us to come for dinner and a bit of TV...two times!
Today, March 4th, at 3:30 pm electricity was restored. Now, we have to put all the stuff around the house back to order. And...we received mail for the first time in a week.
