You don't miss it 'til you don't have it. As you guys may have heard we got slammed Tuesday by a freak October storm that dumped up to 11 inches of really wet snow on our area in about three hours. It was like a bomb went off. Every tree or limb that was even slightly weak came down. I've got a pile almost eight feet high from my half acre of woods. Driving around Tuesday afternoon was surreal: trees lying across roads, snow blowing so hard you couldn't see, snaking over onto the shoulder to avoid power lines draped across the way. Before Halloween! They couldn't send buses up the mountain with the kids, so they told parents to come get them, which for about 60% means going down the same mountain the admins didn't want to send the buses up. Craziness. It was like bumper cars on some of those roads all afternoon.
Anyway, we had no power for 36 hours. Took the girls out to dinner and a movie tonight so they could get their minds on something else, and came back at 9:30 to see the house all lit up. Very nice surprise, as we had been warned to expect Thursday night at the earlies. Three cheers for the lads at JCP&L!
Anyway, we had no power for 36 hours. Took the girls out to dinner and a movie tonight so they could get their minds on something else, and came back at 9:30 to see the house all lit up. Very nice surprise, as we had been warned to expect Thursday night at the earlies. Three cheers for the lads at JCP&L!
. This year marks a big achievement for me though, I am cutting all my own firewood for the first time. There are quite a number of standing big oak trees which have recently been killed by some "disease" (insects I guess?). Makes great firewood and doesn't require nearly as much drying time as a live tree.