Major Wind Storm - No Power - No Nothing

There are a few things in life that make my blood pressure boil over - one of them is the loss of power on the side of the mountain. We lost power about 3 a.m. this morning - when this happens you swing into action like some bolt of lightening has struck your body. The generator has to get started - you need that to save whatever you have in your deep freezer - your refrigerator. God, help you - if when you are doing this you have to pee - because you have no water. You cannot flush the toilet. Once the generator has come out of darkness you need to have a supply of about five extension cords to get the power of the generator to the deep freeze, the fridge. You have not had a cup of coffee because you have to start up the bbq to boil the water. There are so many curse words - lord if there was a board game of Scrabble for curse words - I would have won - hands down!

The wind was fierce - it has subsided but still raging. Trees were busting everywhere. I was outside at around 4:15 a.m. this morning trying to see something - anything. I heard this huge crackling sound - it was not the snap, crackle, pop sound - it was near breaking my ear drums. First light I went to investigate the properties of the seasonal neighbors...there was a huge spruce tree down, roots and all. Thankfully, no damage done to any structure.

Another note of thanks, the weather was warm in temperature. Good grief to have power go out when it is below zero with snow - well, that constitutes another set of curse words no one wants to hear.