Major Ice Storm!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Breakfast: Stonyfield Strawberry yogurt, Christmas cookies

Lunch: None

Dinner: (Margarita's) - Tortilla chips, quesadilla w/chicken, beef taco, chicken burrito, beef enchilada, black beans, rice

Drinks: One hot coffee, four JC minis, two margaritas

Walked 12,700+ steps

What a day. Started out rainy and cold and got through a busy day at work okay. It was raining harder on the way home and as I got there, I noticed temperatures had dropped to freezing mark. Not a good sign. Nonetheless, my wife and I went out to eat at Mexican restaurant and on the way out to our car, it was pouring rain and sheets of ice were forming on the cars. Roads were okay though but as I got to my neighborhood, I noticed parts of it already had the power out.

Once home, take the dog for a walk in the pouring rain to check out the neighborhoods that were dark. Very eerie scene as it was very dark and you could see what looked like blowing transformers lighting up the sky. Trees and branches were covered in high and hanging low to the ground. No breaking yet though.

Got home and dried off and waited for my oldest son to get home from school. Suddenly around 11PM, the lights in our house went out and you got the clear impression that it was going to be for a long time. Fortunately we had a lot of stuff already moved off the floor of the cellar. Anyway, my son got home okay and we tried going to bed. Couldn't sleep though because all your heard was the pouring rain and the cracking of trees falling to the ground. We were paranoid that the tree hanging over our house was going to come on top of us.

Anyway, finally fell asleep around 4AM and had to wake up a short time after to get to work but that is story for another day.