Shelter in Place

Our snowfall and power loss was a significant event. So I plan to be blogging about it for some time. When the power first went out, the goal was to keep the house warm. Little Kat got the duct tape, and taped around the doors to close the gaps. Who knew when the power and heat would come back on.

We had previously purchased a propane cooker. It is a portable small thing. But we wanted some hot food while the power was off. I bought some propane in a bottle as well. After reading the directions, we found out you could not use this cooker indoors. Drat. We already closed off all the doors. And I did not want to open the doors and make the house colder.

There was hot water left in our heater. Everybody took a 5 minute shower shortly after the power went out. That felt good. The water heater is powered by gas. However I was not sure whether it needed electricity as well to run. Most of our phones need power to run. But we kept one of the old ones that works off the power that comes in on the phone line. That became our new incoming phone line.

We decided to do most of our work during the daylight. Had to conserve battery and flashlight power for the dark. There was not that much work to do during the day. We got a full game of Monopoly in before the sun set. Next time I will talk about the massive snow levels we got.