october storm stories

ugh! i was w/o power for 2 weeks also! sump pump went, food went , we froze, and the nasty neighbors on our street would'nt loan us a plug on they're generator!basement flooded, no credit cards to buy a generator if we ever found one!! it was awful!!thank god for candles and battery radio!! we had more problems then then we did the 77 blizzard!!

Aww! Well im happy its all over with...i on the other hand by the grace of God didnt loose anything. The lights would go for like 2secs then come back on. I was happy we didnt blow a fuse and a day or two later we got to bring our princess home from the NICU at Sisters bcuz she was a preemie. Im happy we all made it through ok.

We lost power at 415pm on Oct 12th and didn't get power back until Oct 19th at 430pm. It was 1 week on the head.
I was pregnant and having major issues. My 2 yrs old BIG 2 birthday was October 14th LOL.
We were in one of the hardest hit areas. We went out to dinner and it was lil snow, came out lil more. By 9pm my husband was driving by the house since Schwan's was still running to make sure we were ok.
We have electric blowers on the heat so no heat except. The lady that built the addition before us, put in a separate heater in the back so we cracked it to high and it kepted the downstairs at 80 and the upstairs at like 60-65. So it was well worth it, won't hear us bitch about that stupid heater ever again LOL

here are the pictures I took .... from our house.

Ok The timeline shows how its not sticking here in kenmore then BOOM it stuck and stuck LOL ....

The street Pics my road is parking on both sides and 2 lanes of traffic..... to give you an idea of how narrow.....

Clean up by the STATE or COunty whoever the slow butts were took 1 week here.

i guess we were lucky. we were without power for 24 hrs....but no cable or computers for a week...but we survied..lol I made this collage of some of the storm shots...

Oh I remember the October storm. My husband and I had power and everything. We just stayed in and stocked up on food items that morning. It was also the same morning Hubby and I got married too. I was also 3 1/2 months pregnant with my son. Wasn't much of a story to tell, lol. It's just that Hubby and I remember it everytime our anniversary comes around. Interesting.

Only a few days without electricity....In the upper part of my house I have an inlaws apt upstairs used for company when they visit from out of town...totally furnished with everything...looks like someone lives in it. The apt is smaller than downstairs so my husband and I turned on the oven and cooked all the food I had in boxes in the freezer..like pizza rolls, etc...called my neighbors and we ate all the finger foods and sat around and talked about the weather...I didn't lose any food because whenever freezer packs were on sale at the dollar store, etc...I bought a few and they were in between all the meat  in my freezer and kept everything from defrosting. The smaller apt  kept us warm as long as I had the oven on...did lots of baking cookies, etc..I'm always prepared food wise in case of emergencies and it finally paid off to be well stocked with candles, etc.....found out that when you buy candles for an emergency  buy the tall church like ones as they last longer than the other ones.