12 Days

Twelve days without power. Yes my household was without power for 12 days. The result of the worst winter weather storm that anyone in Springfield can currently remember. The last big storm (like 10-15 years ago) had 55% of the city without power at the most. This storm..oh no not that small. Try 75% of the city without power at some point in time or another. Ours went out on the Friday the storm hit that would be the 12th of January. It's now the 25th and we got our power back yesterday.

We stayed warm because we bought blankets but largely due to the fact that my wonderful father-in-law sent us some money so that we could buy a small propane heater that stayed in the living room. We all huddled in there to give comfort, support, and a little extra body heat.

One thing about a storm like this and no power is that you find out more about who people are. Who bands together to help out and who secludes themselves. In a time when you need to band together most, it's sad to see seperation happening. To see people seperate themselves from the group and taking away the comfort, support, and yes that little extra body heat.

There were and still are many people in the city who feel that the city workers have been lax on the job and that they aren't working fast enough to get people back with power. I hated being without power. It was a sucky experience there's no denying it. But I saw city workers out there. I saw them up on lifts and working hard. When 75% of the town is without power there just isn't a way for you to expect to have the whole city up and working again in a matter of a couple of days. Could things have been done differently, yeah probably, but the people who were getting the brunt of the frustration, anger, and even threats, were the ones doing the most work. They were the city workers out there on the streets every day and the wonderful people on the phone at City Utilities answering EVERY call that came through complaining about the lack of electricity. Yes you are without power, we were without power, but the person answering the phone...those wearing the hard hats and putting the wires back together to bring our city back to life...THEY AREN'T AT FAULT!!!!

Yeah so this was somewhat of a vent post...don't like it? Get the hell off my blog.

To family and friends love and miss you, glad you weren't here :) Hope to see everyone soonish.