Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Ice Storm and Lights Out
After our beautiful snowfall came the not so beautiful ice storm. Not quite sure I've ever been in an ice storm quite like this before and to be honest, I'm not sure I want to ever again. I left for work really early on Thursday, knowing the roads would be terrible and because I don't have either kiddo with me on Thursdays. I was only going between 35-40 mph on I-5 with not many cars around (which was good)...my cell phone rings and its my boss telling me that all of Group Health is on a delayed start until 10 a.m. WHAT?? Never has that happened! I opted to still just continue into work opposed to turning around and I'm glad I did; there were a lot of patients and staff that needed to be called so with me calling some from the clinic and my boss calling others from home we succeeded in our mission!
Around 10 a.m. I received a text from Josh informing me the power was out at home - oh joy. My least favorite thing to deal with is power outages and this time was especially frustrating because I knew I'd be by myself with both boys while Josh was at work - no fun. Thankfully we have a gas fireplace and gas hot water tank. Josh put Zane's un-opened viles of insulin in the garage fridge where it was colder - I was so afraid of losing those...I had just ordered them so we had 6 of them.
I gave the boys a bath as soon as I got home and still had some daylight, then we trekked out to the street to see what was going on. Zane loved watching the cars slip and slide and I didn't, so we quickly went back inside, haha!
After our little adventure of watching bumper cars and people playing "Frogger" while trying to cross the street, we had dinner [cereal] by candlelight and then the novelty of playing with flashlights wore off and boredum set in!
Landon played with hotwheels by flashlight (although in the pictures since my flash is super bright you wouldn't believe that it was by flashlight). And Zane and I played many rounds of Connect Four after the batteries on the iPod and Kindle were dead!
Even though we have the gas fireplace the upstairs (where all of the bedrooms are) were mighty chilly. I piled on extra blankets for the boys and then I read a few magazines by headlamp and headed off to bed rather early myself!
Thankfully the power came on around 3:30 a.m. so we weren't out for too long!! I still don't want to do it again anytime soon!
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