I Wish This Was Over

Going on fourth day without power. Can't sleep well because I'm not sleeping in my own bed because the house is about 45 degrees inside. Maybe ten degrees higher with the fireplace going. But still too cold to subject five kids to for who knows how long.

Sat on hold with the electric company for thirty minutes this morning. Never did find my way to a person. Just rotated in the queue listening to some guy read off test messages for the hold system. Over and over and over.

I'm just tired of this. I'm at work today because the show must go on. Of course, I wouldn't be doing anything if I was home, so I guess it's just as well. I'm not really here, though, because I'm thinking about my wife traveling today to her parent's house so she can wash clothes and take a shower and give the kids a bath--some of the younger of whom haven't had a bath since last week (no hot water since Sunday). She'll probably stay there tonight and I'll stay with mom and dad again.

Our whole family stayed with my mom and dad last night. They at least have a generator to run the furnace. No hot water. Cooking on top of the woodstove. My mom and dad also have my grandmothers with them. There were four generations (11 people in all) sleeping all through the house last night.

I took some pictures on Tuesday, before the ice started to melt and while the trees were still breaking in half and it was dangerous to be outside unless you were in the wide open.

Maybe the crew that was finishing up replacing about a dozen poles out on the highway this morning can move their operation over our way and start working on the lines and poles still down near us.

Maybe we'll have power today. Then again, maybe not.