Wishing you all a Very Happy, Healthy 2018
My city rarely gets extremely cold but as many of you have heard or are experiencing yourselves, the USA is having some rather unusual temperatures at the moment.
Last
night, the coldest for me so far was 8 degrees Fahrenheit or -13 C. It was at
about 9:30 PM when I heard it.... a big BOOM and then all the lights and the
heat went off. I looked out my up stairs window and the neighborhood was totally
dark. A few minutes later I phoned the power company to report an outage. They
said via a recording, there were 13 outages, 1,875 homes. I can tell you
truthfully it scared me to the core of my being! I have lived in this
neighborhood a very long time and the longest I went without power was for three
weeks in the summer, after a really bad storm. That storm destroyed houses and
took down trees all over the city. We had a bad ice storm about 15 years ago and
I lost power in the winter for a week. Right, no lights, no heat! Last night was
really odd because other than being very cold there was nothing extraordinary
happening with the weather, no snow no ice.
I
got more blankets and went to sleep. I was VERY happy this morning to find the
heat was on and the house was warm! I frankly didn't expect it.
So... if you are in the FROZEN USA I hope you are inside and warm.
