Road Kill Cafe

A little over a week ago we experienced a whiz bang of an ice storm. Everything was coated in about 3/4 of an inch of ice. That was after it had rained for about 36 hours. Then the freezing rain turned to snow.

It was erie to listen to the sharp cracks of the trees breaking from the weight of all that ice. We had a tree at the end of the pasture come completely uprooted and fall over. The destruction from this storm is just amazing.

We are on day 8 of the power outage from the storm. The electric company doesn’t even have an estimate for when the power will be restored. At the begining we heard an estimate that it might be the middle of February. We have also heard that it might be March….it is anyones guess.

We took a short drive following our power and telephone lines to see if we could dtermine where the break was…….what we found was almost beyond belief. That fact that we even have phone service with a larger tree across the phone lines, weighing them down almost to the ground. Further on there are even more branches across the phone lines. We found no clue as where the break in the electric line cound have been.

We are using a generator a couple of times a day to keep the fridge and chest freezer cool. That is also the time when we jump on the internet and check email and such. We are fortunate to have planned ahead for a situation such as this. We have a wood stove for heat, the afore mentioned generator and a battery back up plant for Jeff2’s ham radios.

I will be back from time to time to update and at some point to finally say that the power has been restored.