HURRICANE SANDY/NOR’EASTER LITTLE VICTORIES!
Loading...I’m requesting Little Victories from folks in the northeast dealing with all the weather problems due to Sandy and that Nor’easter. Perhaps I can cheer folks up a tiny bit with an incident specific Lil’ Vic strip.
Please submit here, or directly to me a keef@kchronicles.com
Shoveling a path through the snow and flooded household yard decorum.
Here’s one of my favorite stories from Sandy: The power is out, but one neighbor tells everyone “Hey, I’ve got power at my place; come over and hang out till yours comes back on. Here, have a hot meal too.” And the neighbor is Newark Mayor Corey Booker. (Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/cory-booker-neighbors-hurricane-sandy_n_2059971.html) – Cheers! Angela Manning, Seattle, WA
Getting the laundry and the dishes done before the electricity goes out!
The three towering trees near the house remain standing!
You made a big batch of delicious soup that you could just heat and eat the first couple of days of no electricity.
You find you have the rocket stove mojo (impressing the spouse) even though you haven’t had to use it for a year.
You remembered to charge up the batteries before the storm.
Day three . . . the chicken livers are still frozen solid in the freezer!
You had enough notice, and remembered NOT to buy much perishable food the weekend before the storm.
You got to use melted vanilla ice cream in your coffee. How indulgent (c:
Cooking pizza in a large covered skillet on the wood stove turned out perfectly!
Friends and family texted you at regular intervals to let you know you are loved and prayed for.
Neighbors check up on you.
We ran our little Honda generator between my house and my mother-in-law’s house next door. She’s 92 and we had no shore power for over four days. That it never failed is one of life’s little victories. P.S. we had no damage to our house either, despite gusts of 100+ mph.
Another one: hospice finding a warm (free) bed in a nearby nursing home when the space heater in my 92 year old MIL’s house failed.
Another: NOT having an all-electric home! We never lost hot water even though the power was out.
We were evacuated, went to my mother in laws house, (which lost power) Came back two days later to discover that water had come up out street, up to our door, but did not get it. And although we were without power, we had a gas fireplace which kept us and my Mom in law toasty.