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Dec. 19th, 2009 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWell, that was interesting.
Yesterday we were supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow according to weather forecasts. It started snowing at about 8 am and didn't stop snowing until about 10 or so. Maybe. According to others in the area it snowed throughout the night. We had about 8 inches of snow yesterday when we measured with a stick outside our door just before dark, which was around 6 pm. The boy dug our car out but there's still a shitton of snow outside and if I have my way we won't go any-damn-where.
We lost power around 6pm last night and got it back again about 8. And then lost it again around 11, and shortly after that I just said 'fuckit' and went to bed. We got it back sometime after that, I have no idea. I woke up to the boy asking me to turn the lights off. I also got up and fed the cats while I was still up so they wouldn't wake me.
We have power now, I don't know for how long. 10,000 people in this county alone (never mind the rest of the mountains) don't have power, I don't know if power's out at the farm but it's definitely out across the park at my aunt's, and has been since 5 yesterday evening. For those of you who don't know, or if I've never said, that's about a fifteen minute walk, ten if I cut across the park and someone's lawn. We're charging cell phones and laptops now. I'm going to eat some of the fridge food just because. The boy says we could go out because the parking lot is good, but I'm disinclined still. At least until this finishes shaking down. We're within walking, well, hiking distance of at least one grocery store, if it's open, so if we need something I'll hike up over there.
Some trees are down. I'm not sure which ones, I haven't been outside yet, but that doesn't surprise me. This is the biggest storm to hit the actual town in at least a few years. The mountains, sure, the higher elevations get more snow because hey, they're higher elevations, and they're harder to plow out or reach with power trucks so they tend to get stuck longer, but this, down here? it's bloody insane.
The boy's reading off the online newspaper, the DOT (Department of Transportation) report. Everything's covered in snow and ice. Last I checked we were under a winter storm warning until 7 pm tonight.
It's also kind of making me miss my gas stove at the old place. Or gas and oil heating. or fireplaces. Or wood stoves. I've never lived in a place without a fireplace or a wood stove before, and I don't much care for it. Everything in this apartment with the possible (very slimly possible) exception of non-heated water is run by electricity, so when the power goes out, we're fucked if it's for any length of time. Which probably means evacuating over to my aunt's, where not everything is electric, but hey. Stupid dependence on electricity. If I have my way, when we get a house, it will have a goddamn gas stove. Or at least a fireplace and an opportunity for oil furnace or something like that.
It sounds like the East Coast is getting slammed, you have my sympathy and my prayers, guys. Apparently over half the county is without power here. Hah, the National Guard was called out. I hope they didn't send them up into the mountains; the last time that happened the Hummers got stuck and the locals had to rescue them with the vehicles they had, tried and true methods of getting around. Probably tractors, big trucks with plows on, and, heh, horses. I haven't seen any draft horses on the farms though.
Okay, posting this because I think the cable signal is going. And because I'm hungry, and I want to get a bath, dammit, or at least a shower before the power goes out yet again. Catch you guys on the flip side of this.
Yesterday we were supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow according to weather forecasts. It started snowing at about 8 am and didn't stop snowing until about 10 or so. Maybe. According to others in the area it snowed throughout the night. We had about 8 inches of snow yesterday when we measured with a stick outside our door just before dark, which was around 6 pm. The boy dug our car out but there's still a shitton of snow outside and if I have my way we won't go any-damn-where.
We lost power around 6pm last night and got it back again about 8. And then lost it again around 11, and shortly after that I just said 'fuckit' and went to bed. We got it back sometime after that, I have no idea. I woke up to the boy asking me to turn the lights off. I also got up and fed the cats while I was still up so they wouldn't wake me.
We have power now, I don't know for how long. 10,000 people in this county alone (never mind the rest of the mountains) don't have power, I don't know if power's out at the farm but it's definitely out across the park at my aunt's, and has been since 5 yesterday evening. For those of you who don't know, or if I've never said, that's about a fifteen minute walk, ten if I cut across the park and someone's lawn. We're charging cell phones and laptops now. I'm going to eat some of the fridge food just because. The boy says we could go out because the parking lot is good, but I'm disinclined still. At least until this finishes shaking down. We're within walking, well, hiking distance of at least one grocery store, if it's open, so if we need something I'll hike up over there.
Some trees are down. I'm not sure which ones, I haven't been outside yet, but that doesn't surprise me. This is the biggest storm to hit the actual town in at least a few years. The mountains, sure, the higher elevations get more snow because hey, they're higher elevations, and they're harder to plow out or reach with power trucks so they tend to get stuck longer, but this, down here? it's bloody insane.
The boy's reading off the online newspaper, the DOT (Department of Transportation) report. Everything's covered in snow and ice. Last I checked we were under a winter storm warning until 7 pm tonight.
It's also kind of making me miss my gas stove at the old place. Or gas and oil heating. or fireplaces. Or wood stoves. I've never lived in a place without a fireplace or a wood stove before, and I don't much care for it. Everything in this apartment with the possible (very slimly possible) exception of non-heated water is run by electricity, so when the power goes out, we're fucked if it's for any length of time. Which probably means evacuating over to my aunt's, where not everything is electric, but hey. Stupid dependence on electricity. If I have my way, when we get a house, it will have a goddamn gas stove. Or at least a fireplace and an opportunity for oil furnace or something like that.
It sounds like the East Coast is getting slammed, you have my sympathy and my prayers, guys. Apparently over half the county is without power here. Hah, the National Guard was called out. I hope they didn't send them up into the mountains; the last time that happened the Hummers got stuck and the locals had to rescue them with the vehicles they had, tried and true methods of getting around. Probably tractors, big trucks with plows on, and, heh, horses. I haven't seen any draft horses on the farms though.
Okay, posting this because I think the cable signal is going. And because I'm hungry, and I want to get a bath, dammit, or at least a shower before the power goes out yet again. Catch you guys on the flip side of this.