Outage

 

 

Last Tuesday we had 6" of very heavy, wet snow fall.  It stopped by night time and everything looked beautiful outside. While I was in bed reading, I heard a large crack and then the power went out. Our neighbor's tree had fallen across our power line. We called power company but when we looked at their outage map, we realized that we would not be seeing anyone for a while.

I woke at 5am and built a fire to heat up the living room.  At sun up, we rolled out the genny and ran some extension cords into the house. We powered the fridge, freezer and another heater.

We got outside and shoveled. W had to get the car up the icy driveway to get more wood and some salt. Shoveling in a surgical boot made for a slippery time.

In the afternoon, we were thinking we'd spend the night at some friends' house.  The forecast was for a frigid night.  

We turned off the main and bled the water lines. We then empty the pool filter and pump.  We were getting ready to leave when an armada of trucks arrived.  It took 20 hours but within 20 minutes, we had our power back.