Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

I have power!

We left the house about 5pm to go to a reunion dinner for the Honduras trip. While we were gone, Ivan went through the area. I read in the Washington Post that Ivan generated 30 Tornados in VA in the day it took to get through the state. There was a little map in the newspaper which I scanned in that showed about fifteen or so reported sighting of tornados from Friday. Some of them were a little too close to home for my liking.



Our house made it through just fine. There were lots of trees down because of the wind.




One of the new houses under construction in the field next door didn’t fair that well. The second floor and roof were just put up last week.



We arrived home about 10:30 Friday night. Our driveway is about 0.3 miles long. We had to stop twice to get trees out of the driveway. The second time, there was no way to move the tree, so we had to leave my car there and walk the rest of the way to the house to get axes and DH’s truck. When we got to the house… no power. So, we found some candles and changed and headed back out. This is what both sides of the driveway looked like after we got it cleared.






I of course call the power company to report our outage. The recording said that there were no other reports from the area. But I’m pretty sure eveyone else was with out power. DH called again Saturday morning and got the same recording. And when I called about 5, yep, same recording. We left about 8 or so to go get dinner and to enjoy and place with power. As we were leaving, we noticed that all of our neighbors had power. Not fair! Just because they all live next to the road… So, when we got back, we called again. Finally the recording changed. They were finally “aware” of our outage. Sunday morning, DH called yet again. This time they said that someone was in the neighborhood. Yeah! Three hours later, we left to go on a hike and we passed a truck from our power company. So, it looked like we would finally have power. We got back from our hike about 2:30 and yep, we finally had power! Yeah! Now I can get down to some serious crafting! Oh and take showers and flush the toliets. The bad thing about having a well is that when power goes out so does the water.