Ice Storm

This has been by far the worse winter I have ever seen, and I here it isn't over. The ice storm hit us really hard. We haven't had electricity since last Thursday, and I hear we may not have power until Friday. Even worse I hear there may be another storm on it's way. Thursday the power went off at work about 3 and we went home we didn't have any power so we built a warm fire in our new wood burning stove we put in this fall (thank goodness). Bryan, I and the kids spent the evening and Friday morning huddled up just trying to keep warm and trying to keep the kids occupied. We decided to leave and head for Fort Worth to Bryan's parents. We enjoyed the electricity for a couple of days. Then we decided we better get prepared to head back home. So I got on the Internet and looked for a generator. There is like a million different kinds of generators. Big, small, expensive, even more expensive, portable, and standby. Your gonna spend at least 500 dollars. I finally decided to get on Craigs List and look and we got really lucky the first and only add I called he had a big 8000 watt generator with a Briggs & Stratton motor only 2 years old for 600 dollars we really lucked out. It was in Burleson only 30 minutes away. So Bryan and his dad headed over there Sunday morning and picked it up. I went to Target and stocked up on bottled water, canned foods, and stuff we were gonna need. So we got home Sunday evening and set up. Everything has worked out not great, but okay. We got tv and dish, we have our fridge and deep freeze going. Thank goodness nothing defrosted while we were gone in the deep freeze. Now the fridges freezer that is another story it thawed out and I opened it when we got home and it stunk so I shut it real quick and we turned it on so whatever stunk has refroze and hopefully the smell won't be as bad when we can start throwing it all out. Luckily when we left I took everything out of the fridge that would ruin and I put it in an ice chest outside and it all stayed cold. Well we are back at work today and it seems a little weird, but hopefully the worse of it is gone. When we left Friday we saw over 20 electric poles snapped in 2 on the highway, and when leaving the house and driving on our rode we actually drove over the wires from a pole laying across the road. It is really devastating seeing all the poles down and knowing there are so many people that don't have anyone to help look after them, or wonder if anyone even knows they are there. Hopefully everyone will stay safe and keep warm.