Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Big Storm Coming
According to the weather report, a huge rainstorm with high winds will hit us tomorrow, so we are checking the generator to see if it is in good running order, in case of a power outage. We usually ride outages out in good order because we have a small propane stove and the wood burning stove to keep us warm. Usually we rather enjoy our storms here unless the road below floods out. Then we can't get out by car and have to just sit tight and wait for the flood to go down. One year, my neighbor tried to drive through the flooded area and got stranded and had to be rescued by rowboat. We were housebound for ten days once and since I happened to be at my daughter's house at the time, we rather had fun cooking on the woodburning stove and washing diapers out with rainwater. Since the power was off, we had no water from the local water supply, so we had to improvise to get water. Luckily, we had a good supply of bottled water for drinking.
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Hi Dottie. what was it like sitting out storms when you were a little girl?
I lived in Northern Wisconsin on a farm and when a big snowstorm came, we built up the fire in the wood stove and played board games, mostly checkers and card games like fish. It was a job to get down to the barn to do our chores, because the snow sometimes reached to our waists. I am sure glad I live in warm California.
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