POWERLESS

Well, we survived yet another long power outage.
Thursday night we went to bed listening to the howling wind. It was hard to sleep because the gusts were so loud and strong. We have lots of trees in our yard! Our power had gone on and off several times around 10 and then finally off for good around 11 pm. When we woke up around 7:30 and looked outside it looked like a war zone. Our yard is coverd in branches , bark and debris, but thankfully the 6 trees that snapped off where all in the woods in the back yard. We had noticed that lots of cars were turning around in our driveway, so I walked out to the end of the driveway and saw why.....there was a huge pine tree laying over the road hung up on the power lines. A little farther up the road a big tree was laying in the road blocking half the road. It wad kind of funny watching people drive up to the trees and decide whether they were going to chance driving under the down line and tree and around the 2nd tree. Many turned around and many went right under! Around 3pm we needed to get out of the house, so we went for a drive. We too drove under the downed line and tree and headed toward tolend rd. The boys had a good time seeing all of the "desctruction". Powerlines, trees and debris everywhere! Also some areas had flooding from all the rain we had gotten on wednesday and Thursday. Anyway my hubby was smart enough to buy a generator this fall so we were warm and clean through it all! We turned off the generator last night around 10 and went to bed and we woke up to POWER! YAhoo!!! BTW..we also woke up to a couple inches of wet snow.....YUCK!