As many of you heard New England got hit by snow storm Alfred couple of days ago... We were prepared for hurricane Irene a few months back: got food supplies, water, batteries, etc... But storm Alfred caught us totally unprepared. I think I was too preoccupied by preparing to host a Halloween party and didn’t pay much attention to our weather report, or didn’t expect anything “serious” in October. Oh boy was I wrong! An unseasonable October storm dumped heavy, wet snow across the eastern United States, knocking down trees and power lines and cutting electricity to more than three million homes and businesses.
If you have never lived through a nature disaster of such magnitude you haven’t seen nothing yet, and I wish you and your families will NEVER have to go through that. Imagine ¾ mile lines to get gasoline; imagine going two miles in 40 minutes; or not being able to buy any food with your credit cards... And of course, I didn’t expect to find a generator waiting for us at Home Depot, but stopped by there anyway, “just-in-case” what if J
Well, we lost power Saturday night and today, Monday—we have not got it back yet. On the news they say that only 6 out of 42 pod stations have been fixed. You do the math... It will be at least a few more days without power before we will get our power back. The hotels are full. Our home is 55 degrees.
So, we got our stuff in the car (including three scared and half-frozen cockatiels) and went to visit my sister in her two-bedroom apartment. Of course my sister and her husband were very gracious to help us out (don’t know how their Persian cat “Precious” feels about it, she has been hiding from our army J
And thanks to my sister I can write this blog now. We will stay optimistic, no matter what. Anyway, it could be worse....
Be safe, Everybody!
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