What a week we have had! The kids were out of school the whole week and today is the first day we have felt safe in driving. Snow is one thing, but ice is a different situation. We lost some big limbs off of our large trees and one fell within a few inches of our back door. Another fell near Justin while he was heating water on the camp stove in the back yard. Another fell while Jeff was in the front yard. We decided to stay completely away from trees from then on. There was a full inch or more of ice on everything. When the sun came out and shone through the ice on everything the world glistenend beautifully. The sad part is that so many of our beautiful trees are just destroyed. It will be a long time before things fill out and look normal again. Anyone in the tree trimming business will do very well! Today as the temperature rose, the ice began to fall. The ground is just covered with chunks of ice and it fell all day long - chunks about the size of hotdogs lie beneath the trees in heaps. It sounded like we had squirrels running all over the roof dropping nuts and scurring about as the ice would fall and slide off of the roof. It was quite a ruckus!We were without power for a couple of days, but had our generator, fuel, food, water and lots of blankets to keep warm. The second day we figured out how to hook the generator up to the furnace - SWEET! We survived better than most. Many of our neighbors had to move to hotels to survive. We have enjoyed the opportunity to serve many neighbors, church members and strangers remove trees from their driveways, roadways and roofs. It will take months to clean it all up - it just means we will have LOTS of opportunities to serve!
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