Friday, January 20, 2012

Snowpocalypse 2012 turns to ice storm of 2012

Making this a short entry as I am sitting here with ice blocks for fingers and toes.  Was going to post yesterday with all of our fun snow pictures, but lost power early in the day.  Started getting really cold in here, so we hightailed it to a hotel for the next 2 days.  Came back this afternoon and found we do have power back...yay!  But it is a chilling 42 degrees in here.  We will still be going back to the hotel tonight because it was already booked for 2 nights.  Upon coming back, we found that we fared better than most of our neighbors.  We only had 1 tree limb fall...so far. We'll see what happens after tonight though, as we're supposed to get some pretty strong winds. I was absolutely shocked that we were one of the few that got power back already...we're always last. And there are still 225,000 PSE customers without power.  Hoping they are able to find someplace to stay warm tonight.  Air quality is really crappy in the neighborhood though because of all of the fireplaces that were going last night and today.  On the way here it looked as though a tornado ripped through some of the streets....trees everywhere!
Okay...too cold to type anymore....here's a couple of pictures from the ice/no power storm.

This tree will be lucky if it's standing by the morning!

So much ice, everywhere!
neighbor lost a good chunk of their tree
Lost power...heading to a hotel
on the way to the hotel...found this tree taken out on 320th
This gas station had a line almost a mile long!
Made it to the hotel....it's nice a warm here
Came back to only 1 limb down....so far!

Okay....heading back to the hotel.  Will be back tomorrow and can update with the fun snow pictures :)

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