So my big birthday weekend...didn't quite go off as I had planned. On Friday, after work, I went to pick up some fun crafty supplies.
Then while at dinner, there was a major storm. We were on the inner side - farthest away from the windows - so we didn't realize the severity. Later we would find out that there were 80 mph winds.
We arrived home to this fallen tree in front of our garage - which thankfully did not hit the house. Our entire town was out of power & 80% of the entire county we reside in as well. The Governor declared a state of emergency.
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| Thanks Dad for cutting this up! |
So Saturday, we went into Columbus to get brunch as planned but the lines were backed out the door because so many people were without power so we skipped it :( Thank goodness the movie theater was still opened.
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| Loved this movie! |
On our way home, we stopped by our grocery store & as you can see, all the perishables, dairy & produce had been thrown away. We subsisted on peanut butter & jelly sandwiches & tried not to complain too much in the 100 degree temps without AC ;)
Fortunately, our power ended up coming on late last night (many of my co-workers are still without). So the birthday celebrations are on hold for now. I'm just grateful that we only lost our power for 2 days. The last major storm we had a couple years ago - we didn't have power for 7 days & were literally, the last neighborhood to get it. Here's to a great week!
2 comments:
a few years ago, we had a huge power-outage hit the entire eastern seaboard. it was mass chaos! some cities were without power for 4 days and it was also during a heat wave.
our city was one of the last ones to have power restored but we had a full tank of propane and a new fridge/freezer that was well-insulated so all of our food was safe (and still frozen after 4 days!) and we had a 4 day bbq but with warm beer (bleh).
i'm glad you had a good birthday despite what happened.
@Kat-I can't believe your food lasted after 4 days!
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