No Electricity

Power is out at our place. We got an ice storm yesterday and lastnight. At around 5:15 or so this morning, the power went off at our house. Evidently a tree either fell on a power line or a power line just fell fro the weight of the ice. Either way, we have no electricity at the house. This means no lights, no electric clocks, no water (because we're on a well), no television, and no phones except for a couple that are directly connected rather than the cordless phones.

We have a generator, but it's only good for connecting extension cords into it, and the well pump is directly wired so I'm not sure how we'd get electricity to that from the generator. We should be able to keep the refrigerator and freezer working enough though. We're keeping them closed and figure the generator only needs to run for about 15 minutes at a time, about every four hours (if the power doesn't come back on by then).

The roads were a hazard too. The weight of the ice had trees either broken and in the road, or else hanging down over the road so low that you couldn't drive under them. A couple of hours later, we tried again and were able to drive out of the neighborhood and get to work.