As many of you may know, Southern Illinois, Indiana and most of Kentucky were hit earlier this week with ice and snow. Being from Northern Indiana, the snow forecast didn't worry me at all, but the ice definitely makes me nervous! But, I felt like my family was pretty well prepared for a bit of ice and snow. Well, guess again!
We lost power Tuesday night and really weren't that concerned. We had the heat turned up, so the house was toasty. We didn't really plan on being without power for several days - Oops!
We woke up Wednesday to a chilly 45 degree house. We hadn't notice during the night because of our furry comforters! My husband made the trip to Morganfield (closer than Henderson) to check on his John Deere store and get a generator from the shop. I spent the 2 hours he was gone worrying. During the night, we lost cell phone service in addition to the electricity. I tried to call him and check on him, but couldn't get an answer. More grey hair for me!
We spent most of Wednesday working on getting heat into the house and finally got everything (almost) fixed up. We had heat, TV, and the Xbox. We were set. We have a gas stove, so I did more cooking last week than I have in a long time! We shut the generator off at night and curled up in bed with sweatshirts, long johns, a couple blankets and 4 very fuzzy, warm dogs!
I have to admit, I missed my computer and the internet the most. I kept wondering what new emails, AR Blogs and Facebooks friends I was missing. I am however a very good sharpshooter on HALO 3, an excellent golfer on PGA TIGER WOODS 2007, and an even better fisherman on CABELA'S OUTDOOR ADVENTURES! Curt and I got to spend some quality time together and the dogs LOVED having Mom and Dad home.
We did end up having to put our frozen stuff outside to keep it frozen and we tossed a lot of stuff in the fridge (it probably needed tossed anyway)! We did make a few trips in to town for necessities: dog food and a new TV (ours died)! When we got home, we saw 6 great big military helicopters go over our house. I hope they are helping those folks that are still playing Survivor Kentucky.
I'm so glad that we have our electricity back, but there are many in Morganfield, Sturgis and Madisonville areas that will probably be without power for another week or even longer. Hang in there folks!
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