When it rains it snows

Well good folks. She's Baaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally.

It snowed and then it snowed some more. We woke up Thursday morning to snow. We were not prepared for the amount we got. By 11 we were without power. We spent a good portion of the day trying to keep the snow off the shade cloth on the fern house. Snow will slide off the plastic that covers the houses; but we still had shade cloth on the fern house and snow glues to it. We were afraid the snow would collaspe the roof, but thankfully, the good Lord sent sun and a slight warming so the snow began to melt by mid afternoon.
At 1:22 power was restored less than 3 miles south of us and less than 2 miles north of us. Still we continued on in the dark.
Friday I called and spoke to a service rep at the power company. She said out of 17,000 without power, they only had 5000 more to go...and we'd have power by night.

So, we waited, we went to counseling with the girls. We went to choir practice with the girls, at which time I ran over Shandi's bike backing out of the drive. She had parked it behind the truck. Came home around 8 PM, still no power. While I was gone, Terry's friend who lives about a mile from us on another road called and said they got power restored around 4:30. But not us. So we go to bed.

Saturday, this morning, we wake up and still no electric. Around 10:30 a power truck drove by looking for the source of our outage. In less than 10 minutes the big trucks come by and within another 10 minutes we had power. It took them all of 230 minutes, maybe to find the problem and restore our power--something they could have done on Thursday while they were close, or even Friday while they were even closer.

So--now it's time to water, thankfully no pipes had frozen and we had no water leaks. We do however have a freezer that isn't reaching a safe temp yet. I also had to clean up some leakage in the side by side, but otherwise, everything was safe and sound. Until we go to take a shower and the hot water heater had gone out. Most times it takes about 30 minutes to get it to light, but this time God was gracious and it lit on the first strike.

I told hubby, when it rains it snows, and when it snows it pours.
love,
elf