The icy rain and sleet started to fall on Saturday, Feb. 24th. The power started to go dipsy doodle on Sat. afternoon and plummeted out with an explosive transformer boom around 4:00 PM. Around dinner time our neightbor across the street called and said they had juice and why not come over. We did and had a nice dinner and chat until around 8:00 when their power went down as well. We said we might as well go home as we were all now in the dark. About an hour later theirs went back on again and they called and said, why not bring your jammies. We were not proud and accepted the offer. Little did we know that we would be spending the next two nights there. A house without power and slowing descending to outside temperature in the midwest winter is none too pleasant to inhabit even with plenty of longjohns and down jackets.
We were not able to move back in until Monday morning and even then there were many in our town and the surrounding area that were still without electricity. We thank the Lord for the kindness of neighbors. As this is written we are looking with some trepidation at another oncoming storm for the weekend. Wish us luck. The picture above is not very exciting, but does illustrate sort of what our entire yard looked like in the aftermath of the ice. Luckily we had no major tree limbs fall, but there were plenty down all around.
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