Dec072007
update on the update
Filed under my life by sherriknits at 8:43 am on Dec 07 2007
Power has been restored to most of the area and those who don’t have it should have it by this afternoon. The area of town that holds Starbucks, Walmart, McDonald’s, etc is lit again. I’m not sure what the problem was there because I heard it was a priority area…then one of the very last to get back up and running.
I forgot something important when I posted last night … I had meant to mention our gratitude to all of the teams of power company workers who have come in from all over the place. This morning I drove past the one decent motel here in town and the parking lot was full of those white trucks. It was still dark so I couldn’t get a picture.
Something that really affected me yesterday was the signs on businesses thanking the workers, one business was advertising dry ice for another business, others told of the availability of generators and then just the simple hand lettered “we’re open” signs…it all just affected me and I can’t find the words to explain my feelings.
And when we drove out to our friends’ house yesterday, I saw a gentleman from our church standing at the exit off the highway in the rain. I turned to look as we drove by and hubby said he was working the food bank and wanted to let people know if they could get through the road or not (people were working on a downed tree right there). Seeing him there made me cry. It was cold and wet and I’m sure he could have sat at the food bank and let people figure it out for themselves, but he wanted to let people know they were open indeed, in spite of the fact there was no power. The goodness of those who are giving! I think we’ll be hearing stories for a long time to come.
Here’s our tree.
When I turned around to come back inside, I saw this breathtaking sight.
Isn’t the sun just beautiful the way it’s shining on the house? And now we see the house until next Spring. I think I’d rather have raked a few leaves rather than what we went through. The leaves are probably 20 miles away. lol
And now I think I will return to my knitting. I probably knit about 10 rows on this square over the last 5 days.
1 Theresaon 07 Dec 2007 at 7:49 pm
I’m glad people are getting power back! There must be a small amount of grief in seeing your tree all in pieces on the ground. Amazing view to that house. Do you know it’s history at all. When I was a kid and we were in your area I always loved going to the “castle” in your neighboring town. (Not saying because I think you don’t reveal on your blog, but you probably know what I mean) Probably people that live there find it cheesy, but it was just so cool to me. I was always fascinated with “olden days”. I’m glad the food bank has people helping. I imagine many people are in some sort of a shock.