Already Sick of Winter

I'm already sick of winter, and it hasn't even officially started yet! We are expecting another snow storm later today. And could get up to a foot of snow! My kids schools already called yesterday and said all schools will be dismissed 2 hours early in anticipation of the snow storm.

After what has happened this past week, I guess I am just grateful that we are home. If it snows at least we will be at home! If we lose power again though I am going to scream!

And for now we actually have a generator. What happened was Wednesday I was really at my breaking point with this whole power outage. I had heard from a few people that it could be up to 2 weeks before we would get our power back! I could not go two weeks without power. And not stay in a hotel for that long. So my husband was able to get a generator through his nephew. It was somewhat of a drive to retrieve this generator and he was gone for over 3 hours picking it up.

He got back to the hotel around 7:30 PM. An hour and a half later my neighbor called and said the power was back on! Of course we were super happy about this. But my husband was also kicking himself for going to get this generator all for naught. He was actually almost going to wait until the next day to get it. Oh well hindsight is 20/20.

We had no way of knowing when we were going to get the power on. My neighbor even had told me that she had gone out to talk to the electric people while they were fixing whatever it took to get the power on. And they told her that we were actually lucky to get this power on now. Because we were not really scheduled for it yet and it could have been longer. Not sure exactly what that means, and hard to feel lucky after going 6 days without it. But I guess I should feel lucky considering there is still over 30,000 people without electricity still.

And I'm also glad we didn't actually have to use this generator. Although I was going to. But you really have to be careful with them, and 2 people in my state have already died using them during this ice storm! I'm just glad it's over!

But like I said here comes maybe 12 inches of snow today! Ugh! Wake me up in the spring!

The Week From Hell Is Over

First off, I GOT MY POWER BACK!!!!!

6 days without power! This has been literally the week from hell. So many things have happened. It has been a very emotionally draining and depressing week. I will try to post more details of what happened either later today or tomorrow. But for now I am just so happy to be back at my house with heat and electricity!

After two days staying at the Red Roof Inn, which was actually quite and not so bad, my neighbor who has stayed at their house throughout this whole thing, even though they didn't have power, called me last night to say the power was turned back on! We were already in bed and the kids were already asleep so didn't see a point in getting back here until this morning.

There is a lot more to talk about but I am too tired right now to get into it. And I have a lot to do. Like tons of laundry, cleaning, and grocery shopping. Which I'm glad we don't have to eat take out anymore. I was going to have to order some Fentraphen, if this kept up any longer.

Also thank you to all who have continued to visit me and leave the very nice comments. Yeah! Electricity!

Got to Get Christmas Shopping

If and when I ever get my power back on at my house, I really have got to get Christmas shopping. I suppose I should do it one way or the other. If we don't have power back on by say Friday (heaven forbid!), I obviously have to go shopping.

I still need to buy any kind of gifts for my mother. I have to buy stuff for my my mother-in-law. And I need to buy the stocking stuffers. And not just for the kids. I always buy my cat some stocking stuffers too. And we don't have a dog, but my mother-in-law does. The kids love their Grandma's dog, Reggie. I think this year I might buy Reggie some dog supplies for a stocking just for him.

Please let us have power today!

Almost 96 Hours Without Power

Still no power at my house. My husband went to my house before and after work today. And there was no power. Surrounding houses seem to have power. About 5 or 6 on our street still don't.

I am so frustrated, I'm going to scream! Found out last night there was no school today. And not sure if there will be tomorrow. But a lot of people still don't have power. This sucks! I just want to go to my own house. The kids are driving me crazy. And my husband has been kind of a grump about the whole thing. And my mother has been driving me crazy too!

So I really hope my husband goes back to my house in the morning and finds out the power is back on.

Sorry I don't mean to sound like a jerk. I just had to get that off my chest. That's all I know for now.

Still No Electricity

Just an update on what is going on. I still currently have no electricity at my house. (Read previous post about it here.) I am still staying at my mother's house. And my husband has been back and forth to check if we have power at my house.

He is at my house now and no electricity. And the road right across for me still has a tree across it with wires down all around it. No one has touched anything! There are still over 200,00 people in NH with out electricity. I have no idea how long this is going to take.

I am very grateful to be at my mother's, but I also would really like to be home. For one thing I have no idea what is going on with the kids and school. I kind of doubt there will be school considering there are wires all around and the schools probably don't have power anyway.

But I also have a lot of stuff still to do with Christmas shopping and was planning on doing that at home. But depending on how long this takes, I may have to do that from here.

So anyway that's an update for now. And to any Entrecarders thanks for continuing to drop on me. I have been trying to keep up with it but am unable to do the 300 drops. Because I don't have the Entrecard toolbar on this computer. Thanks everyone!