Ice Storm

We just finished an ice storm to rival the FS storm in 2000. We lost power on Tuesday, so we made our living room a "camp site". We all ended up in our room that night though because the gas fire place was giving off so much heat. By Wednesday we were all stir crazy and decided that Kevin should go to FS to work on Thur and Kinley and I went to Kyle and Dan's house to watch some tv and get some nice comfy sleep. Unfortunately, Mallory (my golden retriever) kept me awake most of the night with her anxiety attacks!! Thursday I sent Kinley to FS with my parents because we still didn't have electricity and I had to work the next day (School was still out of power), I went to get some fast food and when I came back around 630 pm...we had power. We were lucky to have only lost a huge beautiful tree and limbs off another tree (am I already tired of cleaning it all up and we aren't half way finished). My parents were in FS this whole time, and when I went to see if they had heat I realized that they had a power surge which had almost caught their house on fire. Then, while waiting on the fire dept to check it all out, a transformer blew in their backyard and caught a tree on fire. I ran out of the house to get away then ran back in because I was afraid limbs might fall on me!!! I was a wreck! But, thankfully, no one was hurt and my parents have insurance! You take routine things such as electricty and gas for granted everyday, but this week I took notice!