36 hours

Does anyone realize how long 36 hours is? I know it’s 36 hours, which is 2,160 minutes or 129,600 seconds. When you have 2 infants ...it’s a loooooong time.

Thursday night’s storm left us without power for 36 hours. Now, think about this, our boys are 6 weeks old, still two weeks early and up until three weeks ago couldn’t regulate their own body temperature consistently. The news on Thursday told us that the storm would start around 3 am, right on the money. I was up feeding the boys at 3 and put them to bed at around 3:30. No sooner had my head hit the pillow, did the “parental” unit of the monitor start squealing (which is does when the base has no power). Nothing I could do, so I hoped to God the babies would be okay and went to sleep. I woke up at 6am and went to check on the boys, still alive but crying……

Since Glenn works from home in the morning and goes to his “other” job in the afternoon, he got up helped me feed the boys and left for the office. He returned shortly….seems the main road outta here has a tree across it!!! There is another way out, but it’s a little scenic, so off he goes with promise to return early afternoon.

The boys and I hung out upstairs with the hope that power would return shortly….no such luck. Glenn came home started a fire and fired the generator on the motorhome, so that we could have some light. We still had Christmas shopping to do, so once the chill began to set in, we packed up the boys and off we went. (Still no double stroller, so we used the jogger stroller).

After we had closed down the mall at 9, we headed home….hoping to have power but knowing that we were probably headed to my Mom’s. We attempted to come home the main road and made it, but the tree was still across the road (with just enough room for a vehicle to pass) with nobody working on it. So we ran into the house and packed up what we would need for the night and grabbed the dog and off we went (the poor cat had to stay home as my Mom has dogs and they don’t do well with cats).

Saturday morning Glenn left early to go to the States to pick up the stroller with Super Dave….bright spot…we have a double stroller which holds car seats!!! Once he was done, he came back to my Mom’s to pick us all up. As we drove home, they had opened up the main road and were working on the wires and the tree was gone. Is the end near?

We still didn’t have power, but we have a motorhome. While I would like the boys to get used to being in the motorhome, I was hoping to attempt this in April when race season started, not December when snow was falling in parts of the City.

Glenn fired up the generator and we blasted the heat to get it warm inside, the boys slept peacefully in my truck in the meantime. While we waited Glenn took Georgie and went next door to discuss some fallen trees with our neighbour…

On Thursday afternoon, the neighbour came over and informed me that 12 of our trees had fallen onto a few of their structures. This was BEFORE the storm that knocked out our power. I guess with all the rain and snow over the last month and a half, the root system just gave up!!




Now when you have 10 acres of land, why would you build RIGHT ON your neighbour’s property line??? There isn’t too much damage and now we have a different view and it will be even more different once the trees are cleared…..the neighbours uncle lives in a trailer right behind those trees!!!!

We napped in the motorhome and contemplated our options, but our power returned at 4pm and we didn't have to worry about a night in the motorhome. Now that that is over......

Does anybody want a cedar Xmas tree?