The Iceman Cometh

Jan 28, 2010 by winjaw

Let’s call it the iceapocalypse.

And we are sitting here on the point at the lake, waiting for it.  Expert opinion varies, but we’re anticipating up to an inch of ice, followed by snow. Followed by “potentially severe” power outages.  As we are in the country at the “end of the road” so to speak, that means if anyone loses power, we lose power. And it means we’ll be the last to get power restored.

The Little Black Dress, the three Sons of Thunder and yours truly. In a small house, no power, potentially for days.  Betting as to who will crack up first and run off into the lake will begin this evening.

The coming storm, expected within hours, has raised the “anticipation” level of the Sons. This is partly our fault, as we let them watch “The Day After Tomorrow” (half the world freezes to death) recently. Big mistake, big, big mistake.

Because the middle SoT now thinks today is the day after tomorrow and we’re ALL GOING TO FREEZE TO DEATH!!! 

Fortunately, the quick-witted youngest Son of Thunder has pulled out quite a number of the LBD’s prized collection of “decorator” magazines. In the movie, our heroes barricade themselves in the public library, and burn books to keep from freezing to death.  The youngest proudly pointed out we would not freeze as we had plenty – I mean plenty – of material to burn. Unfortunately, the LBD nixed that idea.

Which in turn caused the second Son to start freaking out again, until I reminded him we basically had a small forest of firewood out the back.  That calmed him down until I mentioned the fact they needed to bring the firewood up to the house. And before they all started screaming about having to do “work,” I simply told them “do it or freeze.”  Wood was brought.

The middle Son is still not happy with me, probably due to what I told him this morning. School is closing early, so I told him to pack an extra pair of underwear and some other clothes – just in case we couldn’t get through the storm to pick him up and he might end up spending the next few days at the school.
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The Little Black Dress says I’m evil sometimes.

So I guess we’re ready.  We’re on a well, and there’s a generator for that and it’s gassed up.  That in itself is kind of interesting, something you don’t really think about it until you need to. We have to power the well or there’s no water; worse, no flushing of toilets.

I’ve also gassed up the generator for the house, although we have no idea what we’ll actually be able to power with it. Just haven’t had to use it yet, so this will be one of those “life experiences” we can all laugh about later – much, much later.

We have food. We have toilet paper. We have plenty of DVD movies – oops, scratch that. Anyway, we’re just sitting around waiting to become incredibly “pioneerish.” Or something like that.

Despite all my preparations, I still feel like I’m missing something. Sort of like the guy who stocks up a year’s supply of canned food and runs to his underground basement when the “big one” hits. Only thing is he forgot the can opener.

Everyone deals with impending storms in their own way. For some reason, the LBD decided to clean the house – I mean mop, polish, varnish, whatever. The animals and I are staying far out of the way.

And so we wait.