For those who don't know, we had one hell of an ice storm throughout Worcester County on Thursday night. The entire north side of the city lost power until early this evening. I ended up not going to work on Friday, so I walked around that morning and took some pictures of the rather extensive damage, which are available on my Flickr page. My stepdad Jeff took a drive around my neighborhood and shot some video, which you can see here.
Luckily, we still had heat and hot water so it wasn't too bad being without power for almost two days. Jess's mom, however, was not so fortunate. Her town got hit pretty hard, and both the power and phone lines got pulled off her house. The well pump also lost power so she had no water, hot or otherwise. After spending a night making hot chocolate and grilled cheese with a candle in a coffee can1 and going to bed in her winter coat, she finally ended up going to the emergency shelter that the town set up in the elementary school gym. Not knowing this, we tried going to check on her at her house but her street was closed due to all the downed trees. When we finally found her at the school, we asked if she wanted to come and stay with us, but she was actually doing fine at the shelter. She was excited about accompanying the church choir on guitar as they sang Christmas carols to the rest of the people staying there after their spaghetti dinner.
In other news, I finally start in my new position at work on Monday! No more talking to hicks in Doglick, AL2 asking me what button they have to mash3 to make the porn work!
1. This apparently does work
2. Not a real town
3. Hickspeak for "press"
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