It's been rough here Brian. Rolling power outages for several days and we totally lost water 2 days ago. Our water is pumped out of the lake and through a treatment facility. When the power to the grid was turned off Sunday night the pump stopped running. It was 4 degrees and the main water line froze up. They have not been able to get it thawed out so no water. We had 4 consecutive days of sleet and ice then 7" of snow Sunday night. Temp have not come even close to going above freezing for a week now so it's just a solid sheet of ice. Starting last night we have 2 more storm fronts dumping more ice, one of those storms is in progress now and we couldn't get out anywhere if we wanted to. The second storm will hit this evening. The only road to get to our area from town is impassable and has been since Friday. I can handle the power outages but sure would like to take a shower and shave. All day yesterday was spent melting snow and boiling it for potable water. I didn't bother boiling what was brought in and melted to flush the toilets though. I did learn a valuable life lesson however: it takes 15 gallons of snow to melt in order to flush a toilet one time
Sitting here in the dark, unshaved and needing a shower while typing on my tablet. I didn't even bother getting Tracy up for work. It's pointless so may as well let her sleep. The positive side of the situation is that I saw this coming and was well prepared for it. We have plenty of food, beer, bourbon, and margaritas....hey, gotta have your priorities straight, right? Our cook top is propane and we have our own tank buried, which is full so we can cook. There are numerous cookers on the patio also that I can cook on so no issues there. The only one I can't use is the
Rec Tec but that's ok. The folks on the other side of the community where all the multi million dollar Lake front houses are have it way worse. Their propane for heat and cooking is on a public system and provided by way of a large community tank. Heating their 15,000 square foot homes takes a LOT of propane. The tank is empty and the company that fills the tank for them can get down that evil little road to refill it....and they snub their noses at us living on the poor side of the tracks My biggest fear is this: with no water the commercial ice machine out in the garage can't make ice. I'm scared to death I'll run out of ice for my afternoon margaritas. That would be tragic. Oh well, typing this way is difficult so gonna wrap it up. Hopefully things will start to turn around pretty soon. See y'all later....hopefully from a real computer.
Robert
