We lost power this morning at about 7:45 a.m. when a storm whipped through our area. I’ve never seen our elm tree move so much and I’m relieved its healthy branches stayed attached.
I stood watching the storm for a while until the hail started to pelt our house. At that point, we scooped up the kids and headed to the basement. Then the power went out.
The storm passed with only a little water in our laundry room, but the power was out all day.
We still managed to get a lot done even while powerless. We caught up on letter writing, helped the kids perfect their UNO game, did lots of filing, introduced Future Farmgirl to bath by candlelight and, thanks to gas appliances, still had our planned Father’s Day breakfast.
But instead of a relaxing day at home, we headed to the zoo, hoping that when we came back we’d have a humming refrigerator and AC. No dice.
The iFarmer bought several bags of ice to save our food…and, then, of course, about 45 minutes later, we had lights.
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