truly screwed.

This is going to be short because I'm on Char's laptop and she only has about 2 hours of power left on it. We still have no electric, though the phones are working.

That storm turned out to be a disastrous event. About an hour after I posted on Thursday, there was a terriffic crash and flash, and all the power went out. It's still out and we might get back online on Tuesday...or it could be next week. No telling.

We got 2 feet of heavy wet snow which started when I posted on Thursday and continued through Friday morning. The trees had all their leaves so all that snow utterly destroyed them, it just weighed down the branches til they snapped. Some trees split right down the middle..it's heartbreaking. The younger and healthier they were, the more they ripped apart.

We have live lines in the driveway. The sump is being pumped out with an aquarium pump and a couple of D batteries (hilarious story...I'll expound later),so we have a dry basement still. Some people on the street have a few feet of water though.


Char and I took pictures of some of the damage in our neighborhood. Our area was the hardest hit (the snow started here first)
. I'll post them when our power's back. In the meantime we're freezing but otherwise fine.