The Iceman Leaveth

Jan 30, 2010 by winjaw

Well, that was interesting.  The “big one” sorta fizzled. We got a little ice, but mainly snow.

The forecast: an inch of ice, 6-12 inches of snow, and probable power outages for days. Forecasters compared it to the “big one” of ’07, where power was out for 11 days. We got a dusting of ice, 4-6 inches of snow and power continues to flow.

As an aside, I need to point out I’m getting old when I base life experiences on weather.

Anyway, the Sons of Thunder spent the night in front of the fireplace – promising to wake up every two hours to keep it burning when the power went out. Yeah, right – the waking up part I mean.  We woke up, we had no fire. We did, however, have power.

All this simply proves the corollary that when you are prepared for Event X, said event does not occur.
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As proof, I offer the Christmas ’09 snow storm, where we had no gas in the generators and the warm clothes were packed away in a storage shed. And we didn’t move for five days and I’m dating everything by weather events again.

The Ice Storm of ’10 (see?) was a letdown for the SoTs. They were quite pumped to play Little House on the Prairie, although they have no idea what it’s about.  Their dismay over having power – go figure – was eased somewhat when I explained no power equals no computer, no PSP.

And then my brilliant engineering eldest Son pointed out we could plug said electronic devices into the generator and all would be good.  When I showed them how loud the generator was and the carbon monoxide pouring out, that idea was nixed. So they were sorta glad we still had power, especially they canceled school.

But the Little Black Dress was happy.  There was some muttering about why she left left Georgia “for this.” But I just chalk it up to the fact she’s yet to rediscover her pioneer roots from her forays in Alaska. We have time.