Wow it's been an interesting few days and it's not over yet! I was at the shop on Tursday nite when the lights went out - at home. Hubby text me and said a tree came down and knocked out the power. He said "Don't come home 'cause you can't get down the street - too many firetrucks"! Got my attention - what??? Seems a live wire landed in a neighbor's yard and was arcing and started a fire. Okayyyy, fire's out so I ventured home. Lots of leaves and branches in the streets on the way home. Pull up in front of our house and everything looks normal. Hubby meets me at the door and says "Come see!" like it's a new toy. So we go to the back of the house onto our wonderful sunporch. One of the things we fell in love with when we bought this house was this 21 x 12 enclosed sunporch with 9 nine huge windows. It's so relaxing to sit out there and watch the birds and look at the flowers and let the cares disappear. Unfortunately, right now when you look out the windows you see a huge tree that is almost touching the windows. The insurance hasn't been yet but it appears that the tree did, in fact, touch the house -hard, real hard. The dining room window now leaks (dining room touches sunporch at the point of impact) and the ceiling and wall of sunporch on that side have at least 1/2" separation from the house wall and, of course, rain leaks, er, pours in there. So we took some pictures. The power outage stretches at least 3 blocks and 2-3 apartment units behind us.
No one was injured for which we are thankful. No one lost the use of their house except for a couple of days until we get power back. It's unfortunate but not catastrophic like our neighbor friends in Joplin, MO.
Our newest neighbors, who live across the street and have power, offered the use of their freezer so we won't lose all of that. We really appreciate that.
The hardest part? Well, there are several actually. Hubby is at a loss - doesn't know what to do with himself. Seems all of his toys (except golf) and electrically powered. It is difficult or impossible to knit by candle power. I didn't expect that since I knit in the movies. I guess it's the shadows with these cataracts. Can't read except with penlite. I now understand the thrill of an ipad or nook or whatever but I'm not rushing out to buy one. Can't find the bathroom in the dark!!! It's still in the same place it's been for 12 years. Go figure - when the power's out it's really dark.
Just another journey - and this one will lead to a hotel room tonite if the power isn't back! This city girl has had enough! I don't like cold showers at allllllllllllllll!
So hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.
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