Yay! We're home again! We got home last night about 11:00 to a nice warm, lighted house!
The drive home was in the dark but I could see all along the way broken trees everywhere! As I drove in to work this morning, in the daylight, I could see even more destruction! We are so blessed to already be back home with electricity. Two of the women at work still have no electricity.
It's really strange to drive down the road and one block is lit - the next block is dark! It seems like there's no rhyme or reason to the system. Many of the traffic lights are out - they have become 4-way stops. My drive to work and home took a lot more time than usual because of the lack of electricity along the way.
When we got home last night the first thing I did was clean out the fridge and freezer. Of course, that meant everything had to go! Chance is still out of school and he called me at work today complaining there was no food in the house! Oh yeah, I threw it all away! I had to make a grocery run after work today!
So many things have been affected by the storm. Things I never thought about before going through it this week! A friend from work lost her father-in-law over the weekend and the funeral had to be rescheduled three times because there was no electricity to the funeral home. They could not have a viewing at the funeral - again, because of the electricity being out this week! I can't imagine how devastating that would be. My friend was having a pretty tough time with all of it.
I am going to post pictures as soon as I can - probably this weekend. We live in the "woods" and there are so many trees broken. The boat was parked beside a tree and the tree is completely broken in half but instead of falling on the boat it is hanging over the other side. It looks almost like the boat was pulled into the "shelter" of the two sides of the tree.
We don't have any major damage - or maybe I should say any real property damage! I got teary eyed this morning as I left because I saw some of the trees that my Dad planted here when he first bought the property - almost 30 years ago! He loved those trees so much. I hope they come back stronger and even more beautiful than before!
What a week! Now they're predicting snow beginning tomorrow night and some are saying that the extra weight of the snow may cause further damage. Today was supposed to be a bit warmer, but I sure didn't feel it! We still have a layer of ice covering the porch, the trees and everything around. The roads are clear which is a definite plus!
Saturday has been planned - for some time now - for my brothers and sisters and our families to get together to celebrate our family Christmas. I just pray that the weather doesn't prevent us from being together. Two of my brothers live a distance away and it would be terrible if they weren't able to get here because of the weather. This will be our first Christmas without my Mom and I can already feel her absence. I'm sure if the weather is bad we will just reschedule. It may not be until after the 25th, but it will still be Christmas if we're all together!
In His Love and Blessings
annb
