Round Two

So Monday we prepared to head home, electricity or not.  Daddy had to go to work and the kids had to go to school.  Knowing it was going to be hot we headed to Home Depot in search for an A/C.  We found a decent looking portable one that said it handled 300 sqft.  We figured we could all pile in a room and survive through the night with that.

 

We loaded up Monday after lunch, Luke passed out before we were out of town, and we headed back.  After almost three full days of being closed up in a hot house the refrigerator had a complete funk!  Justin took on the fun job of black bagging that all up, while I worked on empting the car.  After a couple hours at home with no a/c we decide a dinner in a/c and trip to the gas station was in store.  By this time, there were several options for dinner and no longer long gas lines.  Most people had their electricity back – this is one draw back to living “outside” of the city.  Some call it rural…I wouldn’t go that far but we like it none the less.  Less populated areas are last on the list to be fixed, plus in this case we were also closer to the area that took the brunt of the wind damage.

 

By the time we got home it was dark, so flashlights in hand we made everyone beds in our room.  We went light on clothing since it was still reading 80 in our room even with the portable a/c.  You could tell it was cooler than the rest of the house after running 4+ hours but it still wasn’t the same as having real a/c.  After getting them to bed, I grabbed a water bottle and laid in bed – it was just too hot to do much else in the house.  Justin and I dosed on and off, and then at one point Justin got back up to check on the refrigerator.  We were waiting for it to cool down before unloading our cooler.  When he opened the door it almost look light in the play room – was I seeing things, in my half asleep state??  No – it was light – our power was back!!  We both snuck out of the bed room and happily started cleaning up a few things…unplugging things from the generator, turn a/cs on, and letting the house cool off before really going to bed.

 

Luke found this “hole” to sleep in early in the evening and stayed there all night.  Logan had to be woken up at 7:45 to make it to school!

 

With the fan on and house a/c back on, E froze to death. 

 

Tuesday it was nice to be able to do laundry and clean.  A week later we are still playing catch up but were almost there.  The positives are the frig is clean than it’s been since we bought it.  Only things we use for now until random items collect again.  The back porch got a great power washing thanks to Justin. 

It was quite an adventurous week for us but nothing compared to some.  We have a couple families at school that lost everything.  I can’t even begin to imagine.  We are very thankful we were spared the worst of it.