Post-Snowpocalypse

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today began our journey back to some sort of normalcy after last week's craziness.  To recap, on Sunday, February 14, we started to see sleet and freezing rain which eventually turned to snow by evening.  At 12:30 am on February 15, we lost power.  When we woke up that morning the high was 7 degrees and there was nearly 7 inches of snow on the ground.  We remained without power until 8pm that night.  On Tuesday evening, we saw a dramatic drop in water pressure and by Wednesday morning, February 17, we had no water to the house.  We remained without running water until last night, February 21.  

On Friday, our friends, the Edwards, let us come over to do a load of laundry and all shower.  It was nice getting a hot shower.

Saturday, the highs got into the low70s.  Evan and I went to Grandmom's and picked up some water that she had bought for us.  Then Evan had baseball practice for the first time since the cold weather set in.  

On Sunday, I went golfing and the highs hit in the mid to upper 70s.  Evan again had baseball practice. And then we got the good news about the water.  Of course there is still a boil water notice, but at least we have water coming out of the sinks.  We still have problems with two of our toilets that may need a plumber to look at.

This morning, though, everything seemed back to be heading in the right direction.  The boys are still off from school as there was damage to quite a few schools in the districts with burst pipes, etc...  But I got up and had my normal meetings.  Everyone was back to work fully.

We had the trash out and the trash came for the first time in two weeks along with recycling and composting.

The boys played wiffleball for quite a while outside.  Rachel went for a long walk.

For dinner, I made beef and shrimp for tacos.

Then we went to HEB for the first time in over 10 days.  HEB had been, literally, cleared out last week.  Because of the poor road conditions, there wasn't any deliveries.  But tonight, we shopped.  There were definitely stuff picked over and they were still replenishing, but we did a decent job getting the things we needed.

The boys begin school on Wednesday and everything will start to really feel like pre-snow.

Until next time...