It has been a doozy of an event the past two days with another slated for tomorrow. It was rainy with a cold north wind on Sunday. Unpleasant but we did go up to the pool hall and play in a Valentine's couples tournament. We played with our spouse and it was great. Butch and I had a good time, and we both played fairly well. There was some tough competition and it was fun!
Sunday night:We knew we would have to shut the water off because temps were predicted below freezing so Butch went out after supper and drained the hoses. We did lower the furnace to 50 degrees because we knew we had a nice cozy situation with a big heavy comforter that Peggy had made for us and an electric blanket. We were never cold as long as we stayed in bed. And then the electricity went out at about 2 AM.! And it was 23 degrees. Initially not an issue...we have a generator. But the generator would not turn over. Too cold! Next, we turned on the MoHo and ran the furnace using power from the batteries while it was running. Using up our diesel fuel.(we have enough) Our batteries seemed to be in a bit of a struggle so we were discussing when we last purchased them and it was when we were in Florida in March of 2015, nearly 6 years ago. No wonder they are struggling a bit. It took hours for the temp to rise and it struggled to get to 30 today. The sun did come out midafternoon and it is currently 38 degrees.
Our electricity is back after 12 hours. They are telling us it could happen again tonight. We plan to get new batteries and work on getting the generator working but it needs to be warmer to get these things done. We knew it was supposed to be cold but not that cold!
Tonight is going to be a repeat of last night. Predicting a low of 22 perhaps dropping to 18! This should end tomorrow with a high of 51 and a low of 45. One difference will be no precipitation. We don't like this cold situation but we can live with it. There may be many people less fortunate than us who will not.
There are still lots of outages and my best Interent connection is out so I am having to rely on my phone hotspot. So posting this might be an issue.
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