Sandy

powered by the one generator line that ran in our window.

My calendars still say October...the generators hummed outside my doors in all directions for days.  Friends are texting about rumors of gas in my town.  It's all almost post-apocalyptic, no?  I joked last week.  Provisions?!  We'll be fine!  

Six Days...Six days, my friends, without power!  We cheered and whooped and hollered in the neighborhood the moment the power went on at 10:30 Saturday night!

It's weird when you start to think it's never coming back.  For the first four days, we had a mere line from the neighbor's generator running to our house.  It powered our fridge and gave us a line to the TV for news and charging station.  We figured out as it started to get colder that we could plug our space heater in too...that was, until the neighbors decided to have their generator wired to their house.  That was when we tripped the system and couldn't run our heater.  

Luckily, I knew of a friend who had a generator.  They had gotten power back days before.  So on Day 5, we rushed over in darkness to get it.  Within the hour, my electrician neighbor had also wired it to our box, giving us about 30% power, but most importantly HEAT!  The temperatures dipped well into the 40s...it was getting really cold!

Life is very different without power.  There are things you have to get done in daylight.  As it starts to get dark, making beds isn't happening, cooking becomes more difficult, and baths are taken by glowstick light!  The dismal feeling of lighting all the candles in the house is daunting when you start to wonder if power is ever coming back!  

None the less, we are here...and we have power.  So now, we can start to get back to normal.  Today is our Halloween.   We'll be getting dressed up later to go out trick or treating.  Hopefully, our neighborhood is in good spirits as we all try to move past the worst hurricane to hit our little town.