snow, ice, power outage...wait, what?

I thought we lived in the south!! We don't have snow! We don't have ice! Come on! Well we definitely do. We've had the last month several days of delayed and canceled school (not that we care). They are not prepared for the snow here of any kind and the roads get pretty bad quickly. They iced over and it wasn't good. The second storm we had was really an ice storm. It happened on a Friday. Levi had randomly woken up at 4am so I went to his room to check on him. I was standing over his crib around 4:30 when the power in the house started going weird and then it was out.
 
When Scott woke up to get ready for work I told him the power was out and it didn't look good outside. He was getting texts from co-workers asking if he was going to go to work. In the end he opted to not. We put our heat at night to 62, so it never heated up before the power went out and it was freezing in our house. Scott didn't want to leave us freezing with no power or car. He did bring his work computer home so we figured we could go to the library or Chic-fil-a and use their wifi. We left around 9am and it was NUTS. We were scraping our doors that were frozen shut to try and pry them open. Our neighbor came out and said to not turn left because a power line was down...awesome.

turning onto our road

We left and it was our power line to our street taken out by a tree. The whole drive was interesting, seeing tons of trees that had fallen and branches that were hanging dangerously low. We got to the Chic-fil-a and it was closed. We just opted then to go to the Walmart across the street to walk around. Scott announced he'll just take PTO and not bother trying to work with no power. Levi had fallen asleep in the car so I stayed in there while Scott and Addilyn went into the store first. I watched people coming out with propane camp stoves, charcoal, and other survival things.

After our stint at Walmart we thought we'd try to go to the library. Well, it was definitely not open. In fact, there was no way to get to the library because a tree took a huge power line down. It was pretty sketchy while we were out so we went home. Our neighbor has oil heat and they invited us over. We spent the rest of the day warm in their house. Navi left to get pizza and on his way home around 4:30 he said some people were working on our power line. 6:30 and our power was back on. Woo! Other people were not so lucky and went a few days without power. Our internet didn't come on until later the next week.

the road to the library

Rayna and Levi