Look what happened when I came home!

I got home from New Mexico on a Wednesday... That my friends is a whole other story in itself... too long to even try to explain. Anyways Thursday was a beautiful day and Madi and I spent most of it outside! LOVELY! Friday was kind of a gloomy rainy spring day... nothing too crazy until about 7:00 that night the wind picked up and it started getting cold. We woke up Saturday to a full out blizzard. 75 mph wind and snow, and NO power. The power went out around 3:00 a.m. and we woke up around 7:00. No big deal right.. they will probably have the power back on by 10:00 or so... Then the reality hits. This storm has taken out all of the main power sources to the town. No one within a 100 mile radius has power! The storm lasted all day Saturday and Sunday was a much calmer day, but we still had no power. Monday was a beautiful day and we got power back that night. So 3 days without power... it was crazy.. gas stations couldn't pump gas.. grocery stores were out because they didn't have generators that could run all their refrigeration... and so goes on the list. It was a little crazy, we were fortunate enough to have a gas stove so we heated our house that way and were able to cook warm food and heat water, but I had a lot of friends in town whose houses ran completely off electricity... So we learned a lot from our little experience. It doesn't sound as bad as it felt but it was a good check up to see if we really were prepared. So here are a few pictures from our adventure. These pictures were taken Sunday morning, the day after the blizzard.

Did I mention the weather man called for 2-3 inches of snow... and not one mention of a blizzard... Oh but they did tell us we had high pollen alert. Seriously?

Just on our road we had 3 power poles broken and fallen... and almost all the rest were leaning!

The newpaper said the storm caused close to 1 million dollars worth of damage just in power poles.

Not sure how accurate our temperature gage was! :)