Well winter has returned in full force. I currently have no electricity and therefore no heat at my apartment. The electric company says it could be as long as 7 to 10 days before they restore power to everyone. A small branch fell on my car and cracked the windshield but other wise I've escaped with little to no harm.
Yesterday morning I watched a girl nearly die. She was walking on the opposite side of the street from me and as she passed under a 70-80 feet tree I heard an intense POP almost like a pistol being fired. She double timed a little further down the sidewalk while a limb 25-30 feet long and maybe 2 feet in diameter came crashing down not but a few feet from her. The limb caved in the roof of the car it landed on and set off it's alarm. Had she left her house a mere second later than she had she may very well have died or at least been severely hurt.
It's almost post apocalyptic out here right now. People are scrambling for food at the few groceries that have power, ambulances and fire trucks scream endlessly up and down barren roads going to emergencies unknown, in Owensboro where my family is they're saying it could be three weeks before power is restored. Yesterday I couldn't even call in there.
The news is even saying that there is more snow and ice on the way!
In every possible sense I am being pushed to the edge of my ability to handle things. I'm financially strapped and emotionally drained.
I do still retain hope that there is something better on the other side of this monumental struggle, but what I have learned in my few years is that hope and heart don't really count for as much as you'd think.
Anyway best of luck to anyone else suffering through this storm.
Stay hopeful and WARM
D
Yesterday morning I watched a girl nearly die. She was walking on the opposite side of the street from me and as she passed under a 70-80 feet tree I heard an intense POP almost like a pistol being fired. She double timed a little further down the sidewalk while a limb 25-30 feet long and maybe 2 feet in diameter came crashing down not but a few feet from her. The limb caved in the roof of the car it landed on and set off it's alarm. Had she left her house a mere second later than she had she may very well have died or at least been severely hurt.
It's almost post apocalyptic out here right now. People are scrambling for food at the few groceries that have power, ambulances and fire trucks scream endlessly up and down barren roads going to emergencies unknown, in Owensboro where my family is they're saying it could be three weeks before power is restored. Yesterday I couldn't even call in there.
The news is even saying that there is more snow and ice on the way!
In every possible sense I am being pushed to the edge of my ability to handle things. I'm financially strapped and emotionally drained.
I do still retain hope that there is something better on the other side of this monumental struggle, but what I have learned in my few years is that hope and heart don't really count for as much as you'd think.
Anyway best of luck to anyone else suffering through this storm.
Stay hopeful and WARM
D
Hope is what you need to get through it. The one constant in life is change - when things are going well this is kind of disturbing, but when you're having a rough time it's something to keep in mind. It doesn't feel like it just now, but summer is coming.
I don't mean to make light of the situation, which sounds anything but light, but it sounds like you're living in the background to a southern vampire romance at the moment. Maybe it's time to start writing!
Anyway, good luck - I hope your power comes back way sooner than predicted.
L