it has been five days and six nights.
i am going insane.
before i get into what happened today i will let you know that..
- the reason the electricity has been out for so long is because so many powerlines are down. and the big huge tower things are down too. that is because all the trees still had most of their leaves on them so when the 10 inches of snow fell the limbs broke off - onto the lines.
- all week joanne and i have had three kids at home.. you can imagine how hard it was to keep them occupied all week.
so today - we had seven kids, because my four were home.
do you know what its liek to have seven kids at home under the age of twelve with no power?!well let me tell you.. it is your worst nightmare. i am super glad toay is over.
we stayed at home for the morning and then went to the playground in the afternoon for a while. where there were these guys at soccer practice, so i ahd a little eye candy for the day.
came home and the kids played hairdressers and i did all the washing up and cleaned the house ready for the weekend.
then when karen got home at eight i went to robyns house (the mansion) because she has power back! power people! and we watched the new death at a funeral and then i slept in the same luxurious bed. then at 5am my phone rang and it was little sister. she was at her end of year ball and calling cause she missed me. how cute. she obviously didn't take into consideration the time difference.. lucky i love her.
x
Saturday, 5 November 2011
snow storm - thursday
almost there...
getting extremely over having no power. do any of you know what its like to go this long without power? it is horrible.
this morning we went to the playground and thats when i got cell signal! hallelujah!
and i had a message from robyn asking if i wanted to stay the night in mystic in an already paid for motel room because there is power down there.
so i packed my stuff and we went to starbucks to meet emma before we left and thats when i found out that the kids were coming home a day early from ethir dads and i needed to be there, so i couldn't go.
so i went shopping with emma (while robyn went to mystic alone), i got the twins presents, a hello kitty shirt and hello kitty colour your own back pack for rach and a phineas and ferb toy thing and a spongebob squarepants beanie for G. and i got a present for mother bear too.
got dropped home, took our car to get petrol and then went to starbucks to use the internet and i got to facetime with mum!
then i went home to wait for the kids so we could go to the martins for a couple of hours in their nice warm house.
while we were there i was about to go upstairs with the kids and the gas ran out for the generator so it went pitch blacka nd i had their three year old and she was crying and the other kids couldn't see anything, so i was standing there with six kids in the dark, calling out for someone to come and get us with a torch haha
then we went home to the igloo. x
getting extremely over having no power. do any of you know what its like to go this long without power? it is horrible.
this morning we went to the playground and thats when i got cell signal! hallelujah!
and i had a message from robyn asking if i wanted to stay the night in mystic in an already paid for motel room because there is power down there.
so i packed my stuff and we went to starbucks to meet emma before we left and thats when i found out that the kids were coming home a day early from ethir dads and i needed to be there, so i couldn't go.
so i went shopping with emma (while robyn went to mystic alone), i got the twins presents, a hello kitty shirt and hello kitty colour your own back pack for rach and a phineas and ferb toy thing and a spongebob squarepants beanie for G. and i got a present for mother bear too.
got dropped home, took our car to get petrol and then went to starbucks to use the internet and i got to facetime with mum!
then i went home to wait for the kids so we could go to the martins for a couple of hours in their nice warm house.
while we were there i was about to go upstairs with the kids and the gas ran out for the generator so it went pitch blacka nd i had their three year old and she was crying and the other kids couldn't see anything, so i was standing there with six kids in the dark, calling out for someone to come and get us with a torch haha
then we went home to the igloo. x
snow storm - wednesday
and again.. hello.
another day of doing nothing.
i will never say i am bored again as long as i live - and have electricity. it is so cold in our house all you can do is sit there and put up with it while doing nothing and being bored out of your mind.
my book that i am now reading is called 'were just like you only prettier' and it is hilarious!
its written by this lady from teh south and she just writes about things that have happened in her life etc and i can not stop laughing while i read it. it truely is laugh out loud funny. she just cracks me up.
oh this afternnon we went to the martins again and had stirfry for dinner and watched captain america (well the first hour and a half of it).
then back to the igloo we went. and karen sent mum an email today from her work (working at ESPN they pretty much have their own power plant to keep things running) telling her that i was alive. x
another day of doing nothing.
i will never say i am bored again as long as i live - and have electricity. it is so cold in our house all you can do is sit there and put up with it while doing nothing and being bored out of your mind.
my book that i am now reading is called 'were just like you only prettier' and it is hilarious!
its written by this lady from teh south and she just writes about things that have happened in her life etc and i can not stop laughing while i read it. it truely is laugh out loud funny. she just cracks me up.
oh this afternnon we went to the martins again and had stirfry for dinner and watched captain america (well the first hour and a half of it).
then back to the igloo we went. and karen sent mum an email today from her work (working at ESPN they pretty much have their own power plant to keep things running) telling her that i was alive. x
snow storm - tuesday
hello!
so it is the end of three days and four nights of no power - and they are now saying it won't be on until saturday! are you kidding me?!
i don't actually think i can make it that long. it might turn out that i will die from no power instead of being cold during winter.
but actually - it might be both. during the day it is warmer outside then it is inside and at night time.. well, we may as well be camping outside.
today we sat around the fire, suprise suprise, and then decided we might go and see if any playgrounds or librarys are open - they weren't, wishful thinking.
so when we came home we went to the martins who live just down the road and guess what?! they have a generator! and i got a steaming hot shower and washed my hair! woooooooo!
it had been almost five days since i last washed it and i have been wearing a beanie so that no one can tell.
we got to sit in the warmth and watch dvds and then had steak for dinner, it was such a great night.
came home to the igloo and went to sleep in a freezing cold bed. yay. x
so it is the end of three days and four nights of no power - and they are now saying it won't be on until saturday! are you kidding me?!
i don't actually think i can make it that long. it might turn out that i will die from no power instead of being cold during winter.
but actually - it might be both. during the day it is warmer outside then it is inside and at night time.. well, we may as well be camping outside.
today we sat around the fire, suprise suprise, and then decided we might go and see if any playgrounds or librarys are open - they weren't, wishful thinking.
so when we came home we went to the martins who live just down the road and guess what?! they have a generator! and i got a steaming hot shower and washed my hair! woooooooo!
it had been almost five days since i last washed it and i have been wearing a beanie so that no one can tell.
we got to sit in the warmth and watch dvds and then had steak for dinner, it was such a great night.
came home to the igloo and went to sleep in a freezing cold bed. yay. x
snow storm - monday
hello!
woke up afetr a great sleep, i didn't even wake during the night because i was cold, i did have a sheet, blanket, doona, blanket and another doona though. which was so heavy i couldn't even roll over, but hey, at least i wasn't cold.
so i went downstairs and wrapped myself up in a blanket and had a cuppa in front of the fire - the only source of heat in our house.
then karens brotehrs kids came over because their parents both have to work, and we went to west hartford to look for a cell signal, had maccas for lunch, then came home and sat around the fire again.
and thats where i sat for the rest of the day.
i ended up finishing my book so now i don't have anything to read :(
oh and i got to have a shower! only 45 seconds worth, but god it was good!
and by the way - the kids are with their dad where they still ahve power - an hour and a half away. so i don't have to worry about keeping them occupied. x
woke up afetr a great sleep, i didn't even wake during the night because i was cold, i did have a sheet, blanket, doona, blanket and another doona though. which was so heavy i couldn't even roll over, but hey, at least i wasn't cold.
so i went downstairs and wrapped myself up in a blanket and had a cuppa in front of the fire - the only source of heat in our house.
then karens brotehrs kids came over because their parents both have to work, and we went to west hartford to look for a cell signal, had maccas for lunch, then came home and sat around the fire again.
and thats where i sat for the rest of the day.
i ended up finishing my book so now i don't have anything to read :(
oh and i got to have a shower! only 45 seconds worth, but god it was good!
and by the way - the kids are with their dad where they still ahve power - an hour and a half away. so i don't have to worry about keeping them occupied. x
snow storm - sunday
hey!
so i wake up this morning and look out the window and it is absolutely destroyed outside. it looked like a war zone. there were tree branches everywhere and the cars and powerline out the front had a tree on it and looks like it is about to snap.
so i put on snow boots (harrisons) and a snow jacket and went outside to into the open part of our yard so i didn't get impailed by a falling branch and had a little play, because the snow was about a foot deep and so fluffy and fun.
then i came back inside and just wandered around the house because there was absolutely nothing to do.
started reading the second prequal of the 'private' series, went to sleep, read, slept, then i could hear an alarm going off in my dream so i wake up and our security alarm was actually going off for some reason, so i turned it off and went downstairs (now it is about 2pm) and karens dad was outside plowing our driveway. so that was my first human contact in about 20 hours. then he left and karen got home!
i was fully preparing myself for another night alone, i even went into the basement and got out food that i could eat for dinner and cook on the stove because i could cook it on our gas stove top using a lighter to light it. but instead skip went out to get milk and other stuff and got chicken for dinner from one of the places that was still open. and we sat around the fire - karens mum came over too, and eventually it was 11pm and we decided to go to bed. i slept under five doonas because the heat doesn't work obviously and it is almost as cold inside the house as it is outside now.
oh and the hot water will run out soon too, so we will have to limit showers, gross i know, but there is no way you can shower under cold water in this weather.
oh and they say the power will be out for another three days. kill me.
i hope none of you are worrying because i am unreachable. i am fine! x
so i wake up this morning and look out the window and it is absolutely destroyed outside. it looked like a war zone. there were tree branches everywhere and the cars and powerline out the front had a tree on it and looks like it is about to snap.
so i put on snow boots (harrisons) and a snow jacket and went outside to into the open part of our yard so i didn't get impailed by a falling branch and had a little play, because the snow was about a foot deep and so fluffy and fun.
then i came back inside and just wandered around the house because there was absolutely nothing to do.
started reading the second prequal of the 'private' series, went to sleep, read, slept, then i could hear an alarm going off in my dream so i wake up and our security alarm was actually going off for some reason, so i turned it off and went downstairs (now it is about 2pm) and karens dad was outside plowing our driveway. so that was my first human contact in about 20 hours. then he left and karen got home!
i was fully preparing myself for another night alone, i even went into the basement and got out food that i could eat for dinner and cook on the stove because i could cook it on our gas stove top using a lighter to light it. but instead skip went out to get milk and other stuff and got chicken for dinner from one of the places that was still open. and we sat around the fire - karens mum came over too, and eventually it was 11pm and we decided to go to bed. i slept under five doonas because the heat doesn't work obviously and it is almost as cold inside the house as it is outside now.
oh and the hot water will run out soon too, so we will have to limit showers, gross i know, but there is no way you can shower under cold water in this weather.
oh and they say the power will be out for another three days. kill me.
i hope none of you are worrying because i am unreachable. i am fine! x
snow storm - saturday
hey!
so i wrote down my blog every day so i wouldn't forget anything to tell you by the time we got power on.
and i was planning on saying that 'i will tell you at the end why this blog is late' buttttt you all know why it is late - because there was a freak snow storm that took away all electricity for, in about six hours time, a whole week.
right now i am in brueggers bagel place eating breakfast and using their free wi-fi. yay.
back to what happened saturday -
this morning i woke up at around 9 and got ready to go winter stuff shopping with lauren, but she ditched me, so i had to go alone, but that was okay.
i decided to have breakfast and watch tv before i went so i didn't end up leaving until 11ish.
anyway, when i left it was just overcast, about seven degrees and okay weather. i did know that they were predicting a snow storm that afternoon though, but after our last "hurricane" i just assumed that the americans were over exaggerating again.
first stop was ocean state job lot which is like dimmeys. tehre i picked up all my thermal undergarments, shirt, pants and socks. then to old navy where i got a jacket, indoor ugg boots and a three quarter shirt and singlet as well just because they were reduced with a further 30% off, so why the hell not?
and thats when it started snowing! it was real white movie like snow! but that meant that the storm had started about four hours early.
so after i paid i went outside and just stood in it and took a couple of photos. then i went to marshalls where i brought boots, pjs and socks.
then to tj maxx, nothing there and then walmart to get gloves and a beanie. this is when it really started snowing. everything was completely covered in snow, it was like being on a movie set.
so now it was time to go home and i had to teach myself how to drive in the snow - not recommended.
i was driving about 15 miles an hour and the road was so slippery, and i could barely see a thing, but i made it home alive.
i took a million photos and then unpacked my haul. karen got home and picked up some things and then went to skipd house for the night and the plan was that lauren would come over for a movie night because i hate being home alone.
so then, at about 5:30, while i am on the toilet (of course, i mean where else would i be when the lights turn off?) the power went off! just great. i text lauren and told her not to bother about coming over and she probabley shouldn't drive in the snow either.
so i found a torch and lit my candle in my room and then stayed there.
i had cereal for dinner and i finished my book 'hunger' because there was NOTHING to do.
and the only thing worse then being home alone in a big house with a basement (where the demon lives) at night, is being home alone in a big house with a basement at night with no electricity.
i was so scared. iw ouldnt even go downstairs. oh and to make matters worse, the cell signal was gone too, so i had absolutely no outside communication at all.
so i am sitting in bed after what feels like a lifetime but it was only 8pm! i couldn't believe it. i tried to sleep but i kept waking up and at 2am the whole house shook! i thought there was a freaking earthquake, but then it stopped and i realised a tree must have fallen on the house.
so i went downstairs absolutely scared to death - not of the tree but of whatever may or may not be lurking down there - and went out the front door and sure enoguh there was a huge limb from one of our trees on the garage roof.
there was nothing i could do about it though so i went back to bed.
continue to next post. x
so i wrote down my blog every day so i wouldn't forget anything to tell you by the time we got power on.
and i was planning on saying that 'i will tell you at the end why this blog is late' buttttt you all know why it is late - because there was a freak snow storm that took away all electricity for, in about six hours time, a whole week.
right now i am in brueggers bagel place eating breakfast and using their free wi-fi. yay.
back to what happened saturday -
this morning i woke up at around 9 and got ready to go winter stuff shopping with lauren, but she ditched me, so i had to go alone, but that was okay.
i decided to have breakfast and watch tv before i went so i didn't end up leaving until 11ish.
anyway, when i left it was just overcast, about seven degrees and okay weather. i did know that they were predicting a snow storm that afternoon though, but after our last "hurricane" i just assumed that the americans were over exaggerating again.
first stop was ocean state job lot which is like dimmeys. tehre i picked up all my thermal undergarments, shirt, pants and socks. then to old navy where i got a jacket, indoor ugg boots and a three quarter shirt and singlet as well just because they were reduced with a further 30% off, so why the hell not?
and thats when it started snowing! it was real white movie like snow! but that meant that the storm had started about four hours early.
so after i paid i went outside and just stood in it and took a couple of photos. then i went to marshalls where i brought boots, pjs and socks.
then to tj maxx, nothing there and then walmart to get gloves and a beanie. this is when it really started snowing. everything was completely covered in snow, it was like being on a movie set.
so now it was time to go home and i had to teach myself how to drive in the snow - not recommended.
i was driving about 15 miles an hour and the road was so slippery, and i could barely see a thing, but i made it home alive.
i took a million photos and then unpacked my haul. karen got home and picked up some things and then went to skipd house for the night and the plan was that lauren would come over for a movie night because i hate being home alone.
so then, at about 5:30, while i am on the toilet (of course, i mean where else would i be when the lights turn off?) the power went off! just great. i text lauren and told her not to bother about coming over and she probabley shouldn't drive in the snow either.
so i found a torch and lit my candle in my room and then stayed there.
i had cereal for dinner and i finished my book 'hunger' because there was NOTHING to do.
and the only thing worse then being home alone in a big house with a basement (where the demon lives) at night, is being home alone in a big house with a basement at night with no electricity.
i was so scared. iw ouldnt even go downstairs. oh and to make matters worse, the cell signal was gone too, so i had absolutely no outside communication at all.
so i am sitting in bed after what feels like a lifetime but it was only 8pm! i couldn't believe it. i tried to sleep but i kept waking up and at 2am the whole house shook! i thought there was a freaking earthquake, but then it stopped and i realised a tree must have fallen on the house.
so i went downstairs absolutely scared to death - not of the tree but of whatever may or may not be lurking down there - and went out the front door and sure enoguh there was a huge limb from one of our trees on the garage roof.
there was nothing i could do about it though so i went back to bed.
continue to next post. x
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