Adventures in living.

At 2 am on Friday morning I woke to a loud sounds outside my house. I sat up half awake wondering why it sounded like a freight train was outside my bedroom window. My boyfriend came into the bedroom and I sleepily asked him if it was the expected thunderstorms. He said no it was worse, way worse. I got out of bed and grabbed out sleeping daughter. I put her in our bed and covered her with the blankets. If I had been thinking more clearly I would have gone into the bathroom and hunkered down. But as it was we huddled against the wall and waited out the storm. The next day I stepped outside and looked around. A tornado had hit the houses behind ours and five of them were gone. It was horrible to see five houses gone, trees uprooted, and no less then five electric poles lying on the street. We had 4 fire trucks, 10 police cars, a red cross truck and a mobile command center on the corner of our street coordinating clean up efforts. All the streets leading to our complex were blocked off. I couldn't even walk out to get to work. The police told me to get back inside that it was still dangerous due to rubble in the trees and collapsing houses. Our quiet peaceful neighborhood looked like a war zone.

For about 27 hours we had no power. That was the hardest part I think. I went to the the grocery store with a friend to get something for our kids to eat for breakfast. Since we had no power I couldn't find much to buy that would last until we had power. Milk, cheese, yogurt, and lunchables were out of the question. With no working fridge they would spoil fast in the growing heat. Doughnuts and juice were breakfast and I got chips, jerky, and muffins for snacking later. Once back home we didn't know what to do next. We walked around asking if anyone needed help and when we were told no we went home. We played games with our daughter, talked and stared at the wall. Later my sister who lives in a different town came over she took me and Alison to get some dinner. Her and her husband own several subways and we got sandwiches, sodas and chips for dinner. We went to bed early that night because when it got pitch black there wasn't anything to do. Luckily we got power back by Saturday noon.

Still fighting with the cable company over our phone, internet, and cable services. As I am writing this it came back on for an hour then went off again. Since Saturday I have called Time Warner multiple time and talked to 10 different people and gotten as many different answers. Now I am mad!!!!