LimboLand!!!!

Here I am in Limboland! Actually I am at my daughter and son-in-law's house and have been since yesterday evening because we have no power at my house! We lost power on Sunday evening about 5:00 because of the weather. We are in the midst of an ice storm here. We live in the country surrounded by woods and I'm afraid the trees are all in trouble.

The power came back on about 2 1/2 hours later on Sunday and stayed on for about 20 minutes then went off again. It came back on a couple of times that evening, but then went off about 10:30 and has not come back on since and they're saying it could be 7 to 10 days before the power is restored!

We stayed at the house on Sunday evening and at the time we went to bed we had power. I woke up several times during the night because of the thunder - thunder during the ice storm! Jody got up and went to work on Monday morning even though they were discouraging travel. School as closed so Chance and I stayed home all day. During the day we noticed a couple of trees leaning precariously toward the living room windows. Chance went outside to see if he could chop the trees down and make them fall in the opposite direction, but he just couldn't do it with only one hand.

Chance and I stood outside for a little while and you could hear the trees breaking everywhere around us. It was eerily quiet until you heard the crack and then we could see the tops of the trees falling to the ground. So many of the trees around us are broken! It really is horrible to see.

Our driveway is about 1/8 of a mile long and when Jody left to go to work on Monday he had to come back to the house and get a machete to chop the branches hanging down over the driveway. By the time he came home the driveway was completely covered with broken branches and trees that had fallen across the driveway. He could not even drive down to the house! He had to get the chainsaw and it took him about an hour, with Chance's help, to clean the driveway enough to get to the house.

We were due for a propane delivery on Friday last week, but for some reason they did not deliver it and then we were extremely low. Jody decided we could not stay at the house Monday evening because he didn't know if the propane would last all night! It was one thing to stay home with no electricity with heat! It was completely another to stay with no electricity, no water and no heat!

We decided to camp out at Elizabeth's until the power is restored. Jody spent all day today, after taking off work, cleaning the trees from the driveway and around the house again! He just now, at 8:05 pm, walked in for supper. He is completely worn out. He said he had to cut down a lot of the branches that were hanging down over the electric and cable lines around the house.

School is closed tomorrow again because . . . still no power! I will be going in to work tomorrow from Elizabeth's. I don't even have my car here so I'll have to use her car, too. It makes it hard - not being able to be at home and not knowing how long before we can go back home! I am definitely being reminded how blessed we are to have electricity in our homes!

I took some pictures around the house on Monday but since I'm not at home I can't download them to my computer . . . which is not powered, but I'll post them as soon as I'm back home. I'm using Michael's laptop now.

That's the scoop for now! Please pray for all of us in Oklahoma who are are limbo. I am so thankful that we had a place we could go to when we needed it. Pray for those who have no place to go! Please pray that we Oklahomans will get back to normal soon!

In His Love and Blessings
annb