Rabbit Hop got covered in ice yesterday and last night, and we lost our electricity about 3:30 a.m.. We are ok, because we have gas heat to keep us warm and plenty of food and water. It came back on about 1:40 p.m. So thankful! Most people in our county still don't have any. Just praying that ours stays on and theirs comes back on soon!
Sorry about the picture quality, but I made these through dirty windows from inside the house. I have three rechargeable batteries for my camera, and they all died on me while I had no way to re-charge them.
This is just a sampling of the damage to trees in our and my mom's yards. Our driveway has multiple limbs across it and there is a huge limb on top of my mom's house. We don't know if the roof is damaged or not yet, and we haven't been out of our yard yet to investigate out around the whole place, because we are old and don't need to be on the ice any more than necessary. We are way too far from an emergency room!
Hubby moved our car from my mom's car shed next door, because a tree is threatening to fall on it, to our car shed, which also has a tree threatening to fall on it, but we have insurance on ours. We don't on hers, because since she passed away and nobody lives in the house, they wouldn't let me keep the insurance on it. It wouldn't have been practical to keep it anyway, because it's an old house that I grew up in, and I couldn't bear for anyone else to live in it. It is very sad to watch it die though...
It's already below 20 degrees and falling, so with what little ice melt we had today freezing back tonight, we could possibly have more breaking trees/limbs falling on lines tonight, causing us to lose power again. Prayers that doesn't happen, but we're trying to prepare just in case!
So that's today's adventure. Not too many dull days on Rabbit Hop! We'll see what tonight and tomorrow brings. So thankful for a warm roof over our heads, food, water, each other, and that we don't have to be anywhere for a few days!
Prayers for everyone in this winter storm system! Stay safe and warm, and we'll try to do the same!
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