01.29.10
Ice Storm 2010
I’m almost afraid to call this week’s storm “The ice storm of 2010.” There is a lot of 2010 left to go! But regardless, we’ve had some cold and wet weather since yesterday (Thursday). Dh was sent home from work at 10:30 a.m. and told not to return until Monday. Yeah! It all stared with the freezing rain around 8 a.m. on Thursday. That continued until about 3 p.m. when the rain began turning to sleet here. That tapered off around 8 p.m. and then the snow started Friday morning and lasted pretty much all day.
We lost power around 3:00 on Thursday, just as the freezing rain changed over to sleet. On the news they’re saying we’ve made it through about 10% of the precip and then wham, no power. The lights didn’t flicker or anything, they just went off. Nathaniel had not napped well and he did not like the power being off. He thought we were being mean not turning on lights or shows. He cried for a lot of the time our power was off. Thankfully, we had heat courtesy of the new gas logs that dear fil installed on Wednesday afternoon. It actually worked pretty well — the temperature in the house held steady for the 1.5 hours we were without power. Luckily, that was all the time we were without. I assumed we were out for the duration of the storm, but around 4:30, everything came back on. We were extremely thankful!
We’ve had a good time just hanging out but I think we’re all getting a bit of cabin fever. Nathaniel told us he wants to “go home” which is his code for wanting to go somewhere, anywhere. So, we’ll have to see what the roads are like tomorrow. Travel is still being discouraged as of right now. Too bad for us, because we had a babysitter lined up for tomorrow night. 
We made two trips outside on Friday. One trip with just Thanny and one with both kids. They had a good time. We tried to build a snowman but the snow was just too dry. We will try again tomorrow. Thanny and I did make snow angels and we all threw a lot of snow at each other.
Here are a few pics:
