Last week when Sandy was blasting the East coast we got 45 MPH winds with 65 MPH gusts. We got rain that turned into snow. And needless to say we lost power about 530 on Monday afternoon. The first night was fine, we couldn't cook, but the RVers had been warned so they had propane for their heaters and water in their tanks. Because we get our water out of a spring, when we lost power, the electric pump stopped working, so no water for us.
On day 2 with no power I went out to lunch and dinner, as we still had no power in the house, I kept thinking about the food in the refrigerator. They say you have 4 hours in a closed frig and 48 hours in a closed freezer, well by late afternoon on day 2 it was getting close to the 24 hour mark. Some of the RVers were abandoning ship as the cold weather and wind were getting into their RVs. some people were experiencing problems with their rigs and had to pull out early. Stotle and I brought up coolers filled with ice to put some of the food in.
Day 3 in the morning we got generators for the dorm and activity building refrigerators, but I think it was 2 little too late. Again I we had dinner out, when we got home, I ate some of the food out of the refrigerator, and it was a mistake. I was sicker than a dog on Thursday. Oops.
Thursday we got power back on which was good as I don’t know how well I would have done in my condition with no power.
Friday I was feeling much better, we had our last happy hour as a group as most of A team were pulling out Saturday.
Saturday seeing most of the big rigs pulling out, made me realize it is going to be a lonely winter, there will be no popping into the visitor building to chat with whose ever working, there will be no checking to see if the activities building has lights on as I drive passed to see if I can stop in there later, and there will be no happy hour. I have grown to love my time spend in the company of strangers, we have become a mini family, I am their adopted daughter, and they watch after me like they are my parents. It has been a wonderful summer and I have met so many wonderful people.
Today when I woke up it was sooooo cold, as my window is still broken and about 3 inches open, I have a nice temperature gauge. It wasn’t until I got half way across the hall that I noticed it was SNOWING!!!!!!!! Not just snowing it was sticking to the ground!! I was so excited! I hate being cold but I love the snow. When I got down the mountain it was just raining so my plan is go leave a bit early to go walk around and get pictures, we are supposed to get more tomorrow, I cannot wait. I need to get new boot as after a year they are no longer waterproof and seem to leak quite a lot.
I have been working on the Volunteer Strategy for NC, this involves contacting District folks to get a picture on how their programs are running and how they want them to be running, it’s a lot of emails and phone calls but I have been seeing a trend with the districts across the state. In the end, I will be presenting the forest supervisor with a document about where we are now and were we want to be. As I have immersed myself in this project I think I will do really well.
I also have noticed a declining number of page views and
comments, I think I am alone now, no comments since September, except for my parents. Sad day for me. So tell all your friends, I miss the comments.
Pictures will come tomorrow, as I cannot upload them on the cradle internet, it’s
too slow.
