Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A Rough Night

This ice storm is the pits. When Tom got home from work last evening he said the roads were treacherous and he "white-knuckled it" all the way home. After we were in bed, settled down for the night, he got a call from Plastpro where he works, saying they had no power. After he and the plant manager pow-wowed they decided they should go in to check it out. So he left home at 11 pm to secure the place. He ended up changing his route due to all the downed tree limbs, all the time phoned to ask him to call all the maintenance crew not to come in, since there still was no power. The power company said there would be no electricity at least until tomorrow morning. Tom thinks he needs a nap. I wonder why!!

We're having a nice day, reading and drinking coffee and generally playing bookstore. Tomorrow it'll be back to work as usual, but today it's a quiet relaxing day.

2 comments:

The Pastor of a Small Rural Church said...

We feel your pain. We made a trip to Erie in all that mess and you can see on my blog what happened. Not fun pulling a trailer in that mess....but when the wifey finds a free dishwasher.....well duty calls. I think it is junk but she seems pretty happy I guess we will find out when ever we try running it. It is thawing out after getting coated with an inch of ice.

Pastor

slimsdotter said...

Glad you still have electric. My folks had been out for 18 hrs when I talked to them last (over 12 hrs ago). They had offers from others to go stay but didn't want to abandon the farm.
Are you enjoying the birthday dictionary? I showed Kent that entry. Because I've been reading a book called Grandfather Stories by a Samuel Hopkins Adams. (About the Erie Canal area, 1880's) It reads like a kids book, only with phenomonal vocabulary. Callow dawplucker? Kantikoy? It's fun to learn new words. When Kent saw your birthday present, his first comment was "Hmmph, must be genetic".