Oh my gosh Candyce! I'm so glad you're safe, and have a generator. Hope things improve quickly.
Lovely pictures!
Ice-covered southern New Hampshire
WOW!! What a nightmare - the damage is unbelieveable. I'm so glad you are safe. Hope you get your power back on very soon. Eleanor
Were you spared, Eleanor?
Wow, Candyce, I'm so glad to hear you and your family are all right. How did you do in that "Could you cope with Depression?" quiz we were all filling out a few weeks ago? I got 50% but you get 100% in my book!! You were definitely prepared for this... as prepared as you can be. Amazing photos, too!
candyce those pictures of the storm are something - looks like it stayed colder there than here - all the ice fell off on Friday here. the landscape pictures are stunning. hope your power is back - today.
No power yet, but we've seen a lot of utility trucks in the area.
It's Day Seven ... and nerves are very short.
I'll post later.
Oh boy. Good luck!
Poor Candyce. Are you keeping a journal or anything for your GGGchildren?
So good to hear from you, Candyce. Hope the power gets back on soon. Grab a kitty and snuggle - they have a higher body temperature than we do! :)
hope you get the power back soon - like today!
Like NOW - give or take 20 minutes. I was only 4 days. Nerves was a shooting. The day they came on, my gitty up and go went POOF. My mind was in the gutter and thats not the porn or bad way. Could not think correctly. I was still thinking way ahead. Lug water, lug wood, oh fill the generator, dont forget to have all the oil lamps up to par and candles. Oh dont forget the fire place stupid..............
Poor Sherrie. Poor everybody. I need electricity for my wheelchair - if we ever were to have a bad outage .... I hate to imagine. I go crazy if we're offline for a few hours. we take the computer with us on trips!
sherriw you are a trip - no comment on the referemces made - i'll leave that to Victor. time to burn off some stress anyway you want to:)
Candyce I hope you get your power soon!! I've done the long stretch without power before it's no fun and I don't wish it on anyone!!
My faithful fireplace is a blessing. It's very dirty in this picture but we used it for 3 days straight. It needs a good scrubbing with
Spic n' Span!
Celeste, that is a beautiful New England fireplace! Looks very cozy.
Nice fireplace, Celeste!!
I like the fireplace. We have a wood stove, and it's very cozy.
Karen
Thanks all, we had another chance to get it dirty last night. At about 7:30pm the power went out again...it seems we blew a transformer or two. Only lost it for 3-4 hours so it wasn't to bad!!!
Wow that ice is just crazy!!! So beautiful yet so damaging. The main thing is you are safe. I hope things get cleaned up quickly. Take care.
An hour after I last posted, we lost the generator. It seized up, I guess. So we spent the rest of our lovely time together with absolutely no power ... which is how we began this adventure.
Then, at about 2:30 yesterday afternoon ...
Do you see what I see?
We had power back by 5:15 PM. My goodness! I was so happy to be able to see to cook again!!!!!!! But, I didn't trust it. I went around with a flashlight in my pocket for about an hour.
It's a bit past 11 Am now on Sunday, and we still have power. So many around us still do not. I'm STILL not taking it for granted, as we are supposed to get 12 to 18 inches of snow today - again.
Wow - you have my sympathy, Candyce. Hopefully all will be well now. Don't let it spoil your holiday spirits!
At least we'd still be prepared for it.
Would you believe that we lost NOTHING from the freezer?
Oh what great news for you Candyce. You must have been so thrilled to see that truck. Hope it stays on with all the snow headed that way. At least most of the weak and over hanging trees and branches have probably already come down or been cut down now. Hope the rest of the people still waiting get some relief soon too. Stay warm and cook up a lot of soup just in case. :)
Thanks, kiddo. We are still in 'hunker down' mode. I don't think that will leave our mindset for a few more days.
Candyce - congrats on getting your power back!!!! It has been snowing all day here and very hard at times. In fact we have had snow for three days straight. About a foot on Friday, more on Saturday and another foot today. Those are just guesses on amounts but we have way tooooooo much!! Much better than ice, though we are running out of places to put the stuff. Eleanor
I know what you mean, Eleanor. When the dog goes out to do his business, he can walk right up and look into the kitchen window now. It's comical.
As I write, it's still snowing. It looks like we got all of the foot they predicted for today for sure, if not more.
Woo hoo! Candyce got her power back!!!!
Karen
DD#1 is home from college and has this friend and that friend she must go visit. We couldn't teach her to drive in the snow over the summer ... no snow! We gave her an early Christmas present, a AAA membership. I don't think she even knows how to change a tire or check the oil. Still, kinda scary letting her go out at all! All that snow, and rain, and ice...
I hope she will be safe, Carrie. Where is she coming from?
Karen
Oh, just driving here and there around town, not more than 5 miles in any one direction, but always after we're asleep!! So far so good.
It's a scary time when they are driving so late at night in bad weather especially. Hope she stays safe, Carrie.
I would be awake all night, Carrie. You are so good to get her that membership and to give it to her right away. Isn't it great to have them visit from college? You still hardly get to see them.
Yup. She didn't think it was much of a present - her real father got her a webcam! Her mother (me) insures a car so DD can drive the 30 miles to see him - otherwise he would have to come pick up his kids for visits, poor guy. I will stop griping IMMEDIATELY. Sorry.
Gripe away, Carrie. You're entitled. We all do now and then. We wouldn't be normal if we didn't.
Karen
Snow still melting so down to about 5". At 78 DH finally decided to get a contract to have driveway plowed!!!
We need one of those. Not 78 yet but post-broken vertebrae with chronic back pain. I always buy him the latest "kind to your back" shovel but I can tell it still hurts.
Whatever is best. It is the lifting which is bad.
That's why I have a teen-ager
^_^
Seriously though. I DO manage to get out at least once a season to shovel, and it reminds me how grateful I am to have both a snow blower and a teen-ager.
I have two useless, teenage girls and one useless, broken snow blower. DH always takes over because he can't stand the wrong way they are shoveling. Plus, he usually has to leave first, before anyone else is awake (to shovel, yawn or even stretch).