I'M BAAAAAAACK!!
I apologize for my prolonged AWOL status, and throw myself on the mercy of the court.
It has been an interesting, to say the least, few days.
We lost power last tuesday (Jan 27), and didnt get it back till sunday (Feb 1)afternoon.
Stacy and Cody went to stay at her daughter Laura's house, and I went to the emergency shelter at Morganfield Elementary School to charge the battery on my fire dept radio.
When I got there, I got drafted to help out.
It turned out that our whole fire dept was drafted, we ended up running the whole shelter.
So from tuesday to saturday, we worked our butts off, caring for about 175 people every night.
For the first 3 days, I got a total of about 7 hours sleep.
On friday, we got some help from some volunteers that showed up, so we could get some sleep.
On Wed, Stacy and Cody went and stayed at her brother Jasons house, he had a generator running for electricity.
While they stayed there, I continued to work at the shelter.
On saturday, we started a complete countywide check of each house, knocking on doors and making sure that people were ok.
That tool us till sunday afternoon.
After that, we were able to come home because our power was restored, but since the temp had been in the low teens (13-15 fahrenheit), it took most of the night for the house to warm up.
I went back to work monday, and am still working at the shelter at night.
It will stay open until the last person goes home.
We got our internet back sometime today, so this is the first chance I have had to get on here and report in.
Here is the report from the local paper about the storm...
http://www.ucadvocate.com/articles/stories/public/200902/04/4FRR_local_news.html
And here are a couple more local stories about the storm...
http://www.ucadvocate.com/articles/sections/main/index.shtml
Anyhow, I am now back on line, and hope that all of you will show mercy on me for my prolonged absence.