Flappin, Fricken, Fuckin, Fracken, POWER OUT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boy have I got a tale to tell.

First some pictures to capture what I've been through in the last 3 days.










Wild eh?

There were warnings of this storm for about a week. The week prior has been 70+ degrees and sunny. Perfectly beautiful humid, warm St. Louis weather. It started Thursday with rain, then freezing rain, then sleet, then about 4 inches of snow.

When I left work Thur about 4:30pm it took me 2 HOURS to get down Lindbergh from Olive to Patterson. It took everyone 2 hours to get home that night.

So I was doing my usual surfing the web, by about 11pm, it had changed from sleet which had piled up on the 1 inch layer of ice to about 3 inches of sleet back to just rain. I was watching a video of the weather from the local news and they were starting to report power outages cause of the ice on the trees. They were predicting that by 2am it would change to just snow with high winds and dropping temperatures.

This storm was so BIG it cut a swath from Texas all the way north to Michigan, Chicago was going to get 6-12 inches of snow. So I just was thinking about locating the candles and flashlights when THE POWER WENT OUT!!!

OMG. No choice but to go to bed at that point.

The next day, Friday. No power. ALL DAY!!!!!

Go to work, luckily the snow wasn't that bad and the ride into work was ok. Stayed all day and the drive home was ok. The roads are clear now.

NO POWER Friday night. So we leave to go to Kmart we get outside and the power comes back on! Woo Hoo! Rush back inside and go about our business and the power goes off again. ARGH. This time we're in the dark and can't find the candles, lighters and flashlights. LOL

So we go back out to Kmart with about 9,000 other people who have no power in our suburb. Bought the last of the sold out flashlights and candles and resolve to create a central repository of this stuff.

We get home and the power comes back on!! Woo Hoo! We blow out all the candles etc and settle in to watch tv and the power goes off again!!!! ARGH

Woke up Saturday NO POWER!!!!! Charlie slept in my bed Thur and Fri nights. The house actually didn't get too cold. The lowest in the morning was 55 degrees going up to 63 when we turned on the stove burners and a huge pot of boiling water.

It went on again briefly at 12:10 and off at 12:20, then again at 12:50 and off at 1:00. But it's now 1:24pm and I think this is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a wild weekend.

I'm taking the kids to Tom's later just because. That'll be fun.