Alive and Well!

We survived this crazy weekend. Thursday after we got home from work, the fun began. The snow got heavier and the power flickered on and off, until it went off for good at about 7:30 pm. We sat there, expecting it to come back on, and trying to figure out what to do if it didn't. Should we pack if we are to go somewhere? Should we check to see who else is out? Then the trees started falling. Oh man, what the hell was that? Jay went out and started dragging these huge limbs out from our back and front yards. Then the neighbors tree split and half fell onto his main power line to his house damaging the roof.

We had enough of that and had to get to sleep, so we packed up the baby and went to my father in laws, who didn't have power either, but a gas fire place with a battery operated thermostat. We all huddled in front of that for the night.

Friday came, and we woke up to many travel bans. Work was closed, so I was able to have the day off, which was nice even though it was crappy out. We went home at about 10 am to get some things, and our power came back on at 12:30 pm. We had it until about 6:30 when it went out again. The electric people were able to get us running again shortly after that, but at half power so we shouldn't go crazy. We had power all night long so we were able to stay at the house for the night.

Saturday we lost power again at around 12:30 pm. We figured there wasn't much we could do around the house, so we headed to our brother in laws. When we left the house, Jay and I felt really dizzy. Then severe headaches came on. Then a stomach ache. It took about an hour and a half to feel normal again. We think we had carbon monoxide poisoning. It was too coincidental to both feel like that at the same time as soon as we left the house. We think because we had half power that the heat wasn't exhausting properly. Still mom and step-dad came out with the CO2 detector. Nothing was found when the power did come back on.

Spent the night there Saturday night. Sunday we went home to check on things and found that there was now 3 inches of water in the basement. We raised everything we could, and moved things around, so that nothing got ruined. Laundry was floating around the laundry room. Fortunately nothing got wet in the storage area in the back. We then got some information around 2:00 to say that we would have power soon, so we were pretty optimistic. We had dinner, dealt with Quinn's runs (eww) and waited patiently for it to come back on. Finally around 8 o'clock we called and got our answering machine. Jay, his brother and father went to see if the sump was draining, and it was. We finally were home for good at 10 o'clock on Sunday.

Monday Jay and I both took off to get back to normal. Mop the basement, clean the leaves, make my phone calls for school (cancelled tonight) and wash my soaking wet laundry. We were very spoiled all weekend being able to spend all of that time with Quinn!!!!