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Well the ordeal is over! Praise the Lord! It looked like a war zone out here. Huge hundred year old trees where twisted, breaking and falling to the ground. Things I have learned from the storm.........well.........I sure do appreciate power! Things I have taken for granted...power...I don't want to take it for granted anymore. I want to appreciate things more. I never was so excited to do laundry in my life. Coming around the corner and seeing our lampost lit was the most wonderful feeling. Mathew 6:30 - 34 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we drink? or What shall we eat? or where shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek, for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness ; and all these things shall be added onto you Take ye therefore not thought of the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. KJV This can also be applied to being stuck in an ice storm........and he surley did take care of us...Blessings, Pam Ya know, when you don't have any power, you have a lot of time to think and to ponder on the things you have to be thankful for. This was a very scary ordeal, we ran out of fire wood. The warmest we could get the home was 29 degrees. 0 degrees outside. With worry of the children getting hypothermia, we called our church to see if they had power...they did! So we climbed all 6 children, 2 dogs in a kennel, all of our sleeping bags and 1 air mattress, totebags and some food in our suburban and headed a liitle more west. We were able to stay upstairs of the church, and we were truely thankful. We had use of the kitchen, and the gym showers......how blessed we were. We stayed there for 2 nights after being home for 3 nights. All the stores ran out of generators, which did not seem to matter, because the 5 surrounding cities had totaly ran out of gas! So if you wanted fuel, you had to go through a check point with a police officer when going else where. There were a lot people that did come together and help out fellow neighbors. There were some that acted out in the most ugly ways. Mad because they had no power trying to run the utillity trucks off the road, threatening the uttilitiy workers lives. Just horrible. We saw the Amish and Menonites buying and giving away food and balnkets to shleters. I ran into one Amish man just watching all of us at walmart scamering around looking for what ever we could find to help out the situation. He stands there shaking his head, "Oh, the simple English.....and they have the nerve to call us simple" I laughed. It was probably not so far from the truth. He gave me lessons on staying warm. # 1.) do not depend on fireplaces to keep you warm or to cook out of. It can be dangerous and you have a chance of getting carbondioxide poisoning from the smoke. #2.) Using a pellett stove or woodworning stove burns cleaner, wood burns slower, and can heat so much, you will need to drees down. You can also very easily cook off the stove. I knew he was right, we had one in the last home that we had. It was in our walk out basement and when we got that thing burning, it would get so hot, we would have to come upstairs to cool off. Please keep praying for all us folks out here in the Mid-West. We are bracing for another Icy situation this Monday, and according to the Farmers Almanac, we are headed for an ice storm February 15 and another one in the middle of March. Take Care and God Bless. |
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