Where Marilyn Lives I had been thinking of Marilyn, who lives on a farm in Iowa, all during the TV reports on the terrible storms they were having in the midwest last week. This is what she sent when the power came back on.
Ice storm put our electric out for 6 days starting last tuesday early morning. Never saw such devestation, looks like a war zone. No trees in my area were left unscathed, some of our 25 footers will be need to be cut, all limbs are broken off at the trunk and they kind of look like toothpicks now. The huge oaks around my house have lost many branches and takes a lot of weight to do that to an 150 year oak, one was just ruined, topped clear out and now leaning over as if to fall. Two nights we spent in the cold, 3 blankets so heavy you couldn't turn over (I remember when that used to be fun, now it's just a nuciance, dang!) Peanutbutter sucked after the first two days and Wednesday we couldn't go to town as the ice had frozen in the tracks of the machine shed where both trucks were housed and we couldn't get them out, with and inch of ice frozen all over the car in the front it was just forget it. Good thing for some camping equipment, we did have a small propance cylinder light to use, of course we ran out of those in the first two days and they couldn't be bought anywhere. Thursday night we finally got the generator up and going, could run everything but electric stove and water heater, still we tried to use very few light bulbs. Generator was using 5 gallons of perimium gasoline ever 7 hours, about 45.00 a day but at that stage it was very worth it. Hopefully won't use that generator again but I can tell you it still is NOT FOR SALE. Had to get my mom one, my brother has one and everyone up our road now has one, I think they are not for sale either. I can tell all of you out there that ever has to use a generator, use your crockpot, they are low wattage and can have some hot food. I now have hot water, I'm going in and shower again, had to go to my sister's last night, who had lights and take a shower, my hair was starting to "shed water", so while I'm clean now, I'm going to go do it again for some overkill because I can.
Love to all, Marilyn
