We spent the first 90% of the winter with below amounts of snow, but a storm which is hitting us now will make up for that and no doubt we will exceed the average amount of snowfall before it's done. There are 15 inches of wet, dense snow out there now, and it's still snowing. This storm is #2 of 3 storms, with the 3rd storm starting Thursday morning and going into Friday. When all is said and done, we may have as much as 30 inches on the ground.
Somewhere around midnight last night we lost power. I had been dozing on the couch and woke up to TV running and the lights on. Deciding to go to bed, I did the usual look-out-the-window-first to see no lights anywhere! No lights at the Westerner. No street light across from my driveway, and then I realized the dull sound I was hearing was the self-start generator. Upwards of 50,000 people served by Central Hudson Gas & Electric are without service, but I have everything because of the generator. Even satellite TV is working again. Must be accumulated snow slipped off the dish.
I've been dozing on and off all night on the couch but am kind of antsy so made coffee and am watching TV waiting for the local news to come on.
I took a short, 4-day vacation to Tybee Island and Savannah, GA, over Presidents' Day weekend. I met my friend Becky, whose family owns a beach house on Tybee, at the Charlotte, NC, airport, and she drove from there to the beach. It was good to get away.
Em has been great! I haven't seen her quite as often the past 2 weeks because of vacation and then my being sick when I returned, but she did spend last Thursday and Friday nights with me here and loved it.
Gas prices - They've come down a little with Cumberland Farm in Glenmont at $2.739.
Weather - See above! Snow snow snow.
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