Tuesday morning, about 8:15, we lost power due to a severe spring snow storm. Without electricity, our only working appliance was the gas range. We have a five gallon cooler that we keep filled with reasonably fresh water year round, so we had water we could heat and give to the dogs. The temperatures never fell significantly below freezing, so we didn’t have to worry about the pipes freezing. However, I was very happy at 10:10 pm last night when the bedside light woke me and I heard the hot water heater and furnace start. I got up for a while and puttered around, starting the dish washer, turning off lights and heating rice packs to warm the bed. I was practically purring to have electrical power after 36 hours without it.
Mountain View Electrical Coop generally does a great job on restoring power after storms. In our fifteen years in this neighborhood, this is the first outage that lasted more than four to six hours. I am just glad we don’t live near Calhan, an area to the east of us. I saw a report that they lost 200 utility poles, and may not get their power back until Saturday.
Must have been very quiet there. Glad your power is restored.
So you are close to where those storms were. I heard about it on the news…I wondered about you. Glad that electricity was the only thing you lost, Elaine. Three days is a long time to be without power. That’s about as long as I’ve ever been without power here and that was many years ago. I’m curious about the rice packs you use to heat the bed. Do you microwave them? What is the rice inside…cloth bags?
Glad you are up and running, warm, safe and sound. What a long winter this has been. I think there’s a rain storm in New England again, or my friend on the cape said they were expecting one.