Winter Blast '09!!!!!

WINTER BLAST '09! Oh the drama! We have had an exciting week! It started on Tuesday morning. Nothing to bad. Mostly rain. Power started going out Tuesday afternoon around town. By Tuesday night it was starting to get bad and by Wed. morning the entire town was covered in ice. Most people are saying around 1 1/2 inches of ice. The tree's got it the worst. The streets stayed clear the whole time, which is a huge blessing. We laid in bed Tuesday night listening to all of the tree's snap and fall.

This tree was ugly before the storm. Now, it is really ugly!

The Brooks lost power Tuesday about noon. They headed over to our house about 5 to spend the night because we still had power. As I was pulling our dinner out of the oven, out went ours. Of course the only part of our dinner that was done was the pork tenderloin. So, we had a candle light dinner of pork tenderloin, chips, rolls, and fruit salad. Yum. Chris and Greg headed to Home Depot to get flash lights. We only have one! And no batteries. We are very prepared for these things! Chris gets the award of the day because he bought each a boy a glow stick that lights up for 12 hours. The glow sticks saved the day!

All of the little boys slept in Isaac's room. They had a big time all together and with glow sticks! We stayed pretty warm until the morning.

This is Greg and Chris huddled up on the couch sharing ear plugs listening to the radio. Aren't they cute! By Wednesday afternoon we decided to bail. The Brooks went to Searcy to stay with her parents. We headed to the Maglothins. They didn't have power, but they did have a gas fireplace. We had some good times, and some boring times, but all is well. The power came back on Thursday night about 10pm. We all slept well and warm. There are still a lot people without power around town and we are on day 4 out of school. Debbie Cook is staying with us until hers comes back on and we may have a few more show up. Never knew how glad I would be to do laundry!