The tornado watches and warnings aren't a joke. Please don't take stupid chances....like the guys insisting on working on our pool today. ARGH!

60 hours later. Time to wash clothes.

Thank you SO much to everyone for the offers of assistance during this nightmare. And now the clean up begins.

Well boy howdy is this getting old. At least now, our pals at Dominion Virginia Power will let you speak to a HUMAN who will brightly tell you that power should be restored by 5pm. Oh boy...63 hours from outage. A world record ( Read more... )

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We're still here. No power, no Internet, no estimates as to when either will be back. The generator is holding thusfar, and we're cutting way down on electricity used in order to keep it going as long as possible. Driveway is clear, road was plowed, dunno what is going on beyond our little road, so can't say what Georgetown Pike looks like. I'm ( Read more... )

Cox Cable told me at 8am that they were rolling trucks and I would have a tech "real soon now." I called back around 7 and was told "oh, they just said they missed you." Then I was told "oh, they didn't let anyone go out because of the snow." Fine enough, but it would have been nice for them to TELL me that at 8am ( Read more... )

Forget tags and cut and puncuation cuz I'm on the droid since internet is down. But wes got the generator started after the sun helped him see a bit. Its supposed to start automatically but failed and didn't catch at 3am. So between about 4 and 7 I sat on the couch under blankets with a macaw snuggled underneath with me saying she's a blue ( Read more... )

Due to the superhuman efforts of the dogpooh we're free and so are the doggies, with a clear path up from their cages. I am not sure if he is giving me a hint, however regarding whether we need to do laundry :-)


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