Again. Huh? Last evening, about 7, we were stopped in our tracks. Tom was still working upstairs, on the phone. I had just finished making a pizza from scratch and was 60 seconds from popping it into the oven. Third time this week. I think it might be a test. I've got the routine down pat--I pulled out and placed the candles in their usual locations, cranked up the radio, put the flashlights and battery lantern out, put on my headlamp, put a jacket on, and, this time, wrapped the pizza and put it out in the snow (essential power-outage resource).
Oh, and we have our water-rationing pattern in place. Where do we need to improve, I wonder?
How do we pass? We ate crackers and cheese and apple, instead of pizza (which was fine--but when your tummy is expecting pizza...). It was, fortunately, a short one. Came back on about 3am. I'm tempted to walk our power lines to the local station and look for possible tree issues, myself. I met a neighbor whose lived in the 'hood for thirty years, and he's never seen anything like it. Gave his generator away a few years ago. Just part of the adventure.Hey, here are some pictures I took of the snow, around here, this morning. The first is our pizza-preservation area. The rest are how piled-up it is around the house. At 43 degrees, today, it's been falling out of the trees and off the roof like crazy (snow-bombs!).
And, lastly, my dad forwarded some cool (VERY cool) photos going around of the Herbin Ice Festival in northeast China. I found the website, which is owned by a guy, R. Todd King, who has produced a book of these amazing constructions. Truly entertaining to see. Not so sure about visiting, at 40 below, but, maybe...Here's the url:
xhttp://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm(I tried to capture an image, but R.Todd must have some kind of cloaking device around the site. Check it out, anyway. It's incredible! Now, I need to study for my next power exam...)
