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January 20, 2007

Storm Stories

Still no power this morning.  I finally broke down and faced facts.  All the food in the fridge and freezer are, to put it nicely, not good eats.  I've actually known this for a while, since we've had an unidentified purple liquid oozing out of our freezer for the past couple of days.  I was just too scared to open the door and find out what it was, especially after work, in the dark, trying to find my way through the house with a flashlight and shivering all the while. 

Anyway, fast forward to this morning.  It's daylight, and I need to clean out the fridge.  Sum total of what could be saved?  A bag of walnuts and a box of wine.  (Yes, I'm that classy.  But it was one of the FANCY box wines!)   Cleaning up the purple puddle (defrosted frozen berries, I think) turned out to be pretty difficult, but I managed to only splash the stuff all over myself a couple times while sopping it up with paper towels.  (As if not having power wasn't annoying enough.)

City Utilities is now saying it will be next Friday or Saturday before everyone's power is restored.  I really hope the temperatures stay warm enough that my pipes don't freeze. 

I realized this morning that while this whole thing has been incredibly annoying, I do feel like someone's been looking out for me.  On Thursday afternoon, the relative that my husband and I had been staying with called me to say "This isn't working out."  Basically, my dog was bothering his wife so we were getting kicked out. 

I called my uncle Randy, who as far as I knew still didn't have power or water (everyone on wells lost their water when the power went out).  Amazingly, his power had just been restored about an hour before I called.  His family had been staying at his in-law's house in Nixa, where there was power but no actual in-laws, because they left for Texas just before the storm hit.  Since Randy was moving back into his own house, he offered to let us stay at the empty house in Nixa.  This is the best possible situation when you are displaced from your house, because you always feel like you're imposing on the person you're staying with and sometimes you just need your own space.  As I mentioned before, our utility company is predicting it could be sometime next weekend when all the power is restored.  Miracle of miracles, the residents of the house where we are staying are not scheduled to return until then, either.  I think that calls for an Amen.

My friend Greg wrote a great narrative about his experience with the ice storm here. 

Posted by zarah at January 20, 2007 9:34 AM

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