ICE Cold Crazy

I am in real disbelief about all that has taken place over the last week. The only conclusion I can

come to is that myself and so many others are spoiled bigtime. We take the simplest things for granted but after this past 5 days I don't know if I will again. Likely yes, but not for a long while.

We got 2 inches of ice and then 3 inches of snow on top of that and my home county of Graves in KY is 100% without power and devastated. At my house there has been no power since Mon. Jan 26 at around 2am, the rest of the county lost power very early Tues. a.m. We've never experienced this kind of outage before and I've heard many old timers say they've never seen anything like this before. I guess the older ones mean since they were young and used to oil lamps and outdoor bathrooms, like my father-in-law. Anyone 50 or so and younger is in real shock as a result of having no running water or electricity for almost a week now and to top that off no phone service for 2 days at the outset. Family couldn't contact family and it was not a good feeling whatsoever!

I'm trying to stay thankful for the health of myself and my family - thank God. Of course things

could be much worse. Of course! Feeling clean is something you don't think will ever be off the table as an option. :D LOL

God is good no matter what. Myself and my family have no major damage to our houses, just trees down and branches everywhere. My electricity to my house is down. Its actually my Dad's house that we are renting. He is in Florida, ___hole. Just kidding Daddy! I am quite jealous of him at the moment though.

Well, me and the boys are off this afternoon to see their Dad in Arkansas. After all I have not a whole lot keeping in KY at the moment. Even walking up to the house at this point is dangerous because of the wires that are down. Staying with my brother in Tennessee has been nice but even the most precious niece and nephew can get on the nervous system after a while! Maybe I can get my friend Kristin's friend's # and get a valuum. Cannot spell that. Between my 2 and their 2 Mommy needs a nerve pill, baaaddddd.