Power is now on again. Boy, doing without it means doing everything the hard way. Heating water for washing dishes, warming milk for the baby, feeding the fire. 14 hours without on this round, and we lost our phone line for a while, too. Temperatures dropped very low last night and will be very low again tonight so I’m grateful beyond words that we are able to leave a trickle of water running to save the pipes tonight. Without power we’d be powerless, heh, to do that. Pray it holds.
We’re all feeling worn out by this weather. Storm after storm, power loss after power loss. And there’s another winter storm watch in effect until Thursday morning with a severe weather statement for record low temperatures. It’d be really nice to check the weather and not see a watch, warning or advisory in effect…
I want to go back to rain. Normal, nice, temperate rain forest weather. And go back to not having to do manual labor for every little household task. But for now I need to go refill the water containers we emptied on the last outage just in case. I didn’t even bother to drain the bathtubs this time so I don’t have to refill those. (1 tub, 10 flushes!) Posting this tonight instead of tomorrow morning because the future is uncertain and I have power and connectivity now!
I have to say the crews for PUD are astounding. To fix this last outage they had to take a cat out and make a road to do the repair. The storms may be dramatic but PUD keeps winning. They are mostly unsung heroes who went out into freezing cold and horrible conditions to make sure thousands of people had heat and water. They deserve to have their praises sung.
Ugh! I hope you keep your power, Charli. And here I was humming the song “Let it Snow”. After two good snows, I’m ready for summer that’s for sure. LOL!
So far, so good, but we’re staying ready. I don’t mind the snow, it’s all the drama around it I could live without!
Hope you stay in and keep warm! We’re finally supposed to get colder weather Friday I believe. I’ve had my air conditioning on all week :dizzy:
We’re keeping warm. Nobody’s going out in this unless they have to!
I’ve gone straight from air conditioning to heat before. It happens. 🙄 Hope your cold weather isn’t TOO cold.
Oh, I remember those days well. 🙁 Glad you’re back up and running.
I hope your power comes back on to stay soon, Charli. You’ve certainly had a hard time of it.
Thanks, Jordan, we’re almost past the current watch/warnings. Tomorrow we should be in the clear!
NJ, this past month is totally going into a book. I can see it now, the storm-bound heroine…:wink: