After 108 hours
There’s something very strange about this morning.
For the first time since about 6:00 Monday night, October 29th, The Legal Genealogist‘s nose isn’t cold this morning.
And even though it was about 50 degrees in the house when I went to bed last night… and the overnight temps dropped into the 30s… the cats are no longer trying to burrow underneath the covers.
There is an odd set of red numbers flashing on the bedside clock.
And there’s an odd hissing sound from the radiator across the room.
There’s a little green light in the bottom right hand corner of the monitor control panel.
And … (gasp) … there are flashing lights on that wonderful device called a cable modem.
Dare I risk it?
Dare I go ahead and flip that switch?
Oh yes.
Let there be light.
Sigh…
The Legal Genealogist is back in business.
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Thanks, Skip! Hard to believe I have a whole big computer and monitor screen and not an itty bitty cellphone to work with this morning!
Welcome back! So glad to know you are finally warm and hope the rest of New Jersey is there very soon.
Thanks, Kimberly! I sure hope restoration efforts are moving forward everywhere here. The state got hit so very badly.
Judy, thank goodness you have some sense of normalcy returning!
I appreciate you taking us on this journey with you. We have had a few effects from the hurricane here in Ohio, but they are small in comparison with what has happened to New Jersey and other states. I have been greatly saddened to see the devastation, particularly those from the air.
I am so glad you were safe. Bless all your hearts…
Thanks so much, Peggy! The feeling of normalcy is almost abnormal today! Here’s hoping everyone here gets the help they need — power and so much more — as quickly as possible.
Greetings Judy,
This is good news! I’ve been reading your FB posts, and knew you were toughing things out. Glad you were safe, and now back in the land of light.
Thanks, Kathryn! I really felt like a kid having a temper tantrum, complaining about power when so many are so much worse off than I am. But it’s sure nice having power back.
Fabulous! And may the light spread and spread. . . .
I’m with you on that one, Janis — let the power trucks roll and the power come on everywhere!!!
Including the photo of the lamp was a nice touch- we genealogists need to see the proof, after all. But in your haste to return to business, you failed to properly cite your source… tsk, tsk 😉
Happy days to you.
Uh oh… I’m in trouble now… (Thanks, Jim.)
I’m happy for you and glad you were all safe.
Thanks, Eileen. Sure am hoping everyone else here gets power back soon.
I’m so glad you’re back online and back in the 21st century. A few years ago we lost our power for 14 days due to an ice storm, and when the lights came back we cried, kissed the toilet, shower and fridge (in that order) and went back to bed, too. We live in a rural area and have our own well, so no power = no water.
I can’t imagine being with power for that long, no way no how. I’ve often thought that if I lived out where I had a well, a generator would be my first purchase after the house.
My dear cousin, so very glad to know that you at least have electrical power. I kept asking myself what I could do to help—send you hot food? Well, I don’t think it would have been very hot when it got there—and I didn’t even know whether you [the general you (plural)] were getting any deliveries, but suspected not! Tom and I have sent a meager check to ARC but it makes me feel mighty helpless that we can’t do more. I’m hoping that all of your family members are safe as well. I haven’t heard anything from my Waldrop cousins in New York state; I hope to find out soon that they are all OK. The lights, heat and computer functioning is reason for a celebration! That must have been a long 108 hours!
Hello, there, dear heart! All of us on the east coast are safe and, now, even warm and well-lit. Sure hope your other cousins are well too — if they were upstate they should have been fine, not too many problems there. It sure is hard to believe just how badly things were damaged here… and how incredibly lucky we were to suffer nothing worse than power loss.
Living in Florida I have been through it. I am so very glad you are ok and now have power. I thought my husband was going to go mad last time we were without power for 6 days due to a hurricane and our neighbors across the street had theirs on in 3. Luck of the grid I guess
Trish, the emotional reaction is the worst part. You can tell yourself 1000 times how lucky you are and, intellectually, you can know it: no trees down, no water damage, no flooding. But emotionally the little kid inside keeps screaming: “Where’s my power????” Makes you feel really petty in the face of a storm like this, I can tell you.
So glad you have come out on the other side. We missed you.
Aw, thanks, Janice! It’s still hit or miss to some degree but so much better than it was!