Freakin' yeah!

I love Christmas shopping! Well, I love getting people gifts that is. I did some more shopping tonight and came home and started wrapping. I also love wrapping. I think I'm almost done with my list. It's funny. For some reason this year I feel like spending a whole lot on each person. I feel like getting more for everyone than I have before. I don't know why. I suppose I'm just in the giving mood.

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Lord!

Power has been restored! I even got to sleep in my own bed last night!

Will the good lord restore power to my home?

We went home today to get clothes for tomorrow and utility workers were just North of our house and another was about 2 1/2 miles south of our house. Later when we went past again they had moved past our house going South. Maybe we'll have power by tomorrow!
Maybe my Christmas wish is finally going to come true!

Son of a.....

Well, here I sit at ma and pa Baldwin's for the third night in a row. On Tuesday we woke up to ice covering everything, and many fallen tree branches. One rather large branch fell on the garage and was covering the garage door. I couldn't get my car out, so I didn't go to work. Dwight and Cindy came over to our house because they didn't have electricity. They were around for the morning, and we were all comfortable. A little after noon our power went out. It hasn't been back on since. Later on Tuesday Dwight and Cindy's power came back on, so we have been staying here.

While I am very thankful for a warm home to stay in and meals prepared by someone other than myself, I don't like being out of my home. When we came over on Tuesday I wasn't thinking that we would be gone this long. I hurried around and gathered only the things I wanted for that particular evening. The next morning I had to go early and find my outfit for the day by flashlight. On Wednesday night I had to pick my outfit for Thursday by flashlight, and did the same again on Thursday night.

Now it is snowing. We could possibly get up to 10''. Not my idea of fun. I'm sure this will just delay the process of restoring power. Thousands of people are out of electricity. Rice County is a neighboring county, and every town in the county has no power except for one town. In Hutchinson alone I believe more than 10,000 homes have no electricity. Everybody is in a bad way around here.

This storm is said to be worse than '05 because so many more people have been affected by it. So I've survived so far, but it sucks!

I survived the ice storm of '05!

Yes it's true I survived the ice storm of '05, but will I survive the ice storm of '07? My sources are telling me that it is going to be worse than '05. It will be the most expensive storm ever for Westar Energy. The news says we might get an inch of ice. It is apparently inevitable that the electricity will go out. You can't buy a generator anywhere in McPherson. Adam says that the higher the heat inside, the longer it will take to cool down when the electricity does go off. So our heat is up to 78 degrees.

These pictures are from Jan. '05 in North Newton, KS