ICE STORM 2005
Ok, so 20 inches of snow at Christmas wasn't enough...Wednesday Jan. 5th we got hammered with a massive ice storm. We lost power at our house Wednesday around 2:00pm and it did not come back on till Thursday around 10am. (do you know how hard it is to explain to a 3 year old that no matter how many times you try to turn on the Playstation it just wont work with out power....and during the power outage if I heard "this is boring" one more time I would have lost my mind!!!! )
I am not complaining however because a ton of people still do not have power and it is Saturday morning. We did not have any major damage at our house because we don't have any trees close to the house....but most of our trees are ruined from the weight of the ice. We defiantly have a lot of clean up to do. The one good thing that came out of the storm was our Subway was one of the only places open Thursday so we ROCKED in there from the time the power came back on there around 11:30 Thursday, till I just had to close the doors around 7pm Thursday night because we were running out of food. The last two hours I was open I had no lettuce or tomatoes and not one customer complained....they just kept thanking us for being open. Around 6:30 pm the power blinked out and I had a line out the door...all you heard was a unanimous "ahhhhhh" and I calmly said "I can keep making food if any one has flashlights"... and wham, about 4 flashlights were shining on the food line. It was so funny. There was a fire fighter that had a really good flashlight and he came behind the counter and stood right next to me to shine it down the line. The power was only out for about 4 min that time. So the sales we did Thursday and Friday are making up for the 3 days we were closed before Christmas with the 20 inches of snow.
So....for those of you in warm states.....ENJOY IT!!! xoxo Julie
I am not complaining however because a ton of people still do not have power and it is Saturday morning. We did not have any major damage at our house because we don't have any trees close to the house....but most of our trees are ruined from the weight of the ice. We defiantly have a lot of clean up to do. The one good thing that came out of the storm was our Subway was one of the only places open Thursday so we ROCKED in there from the time the power came back on there around 11:30 Thursday, till I just had to close the doors around 7pm Thursday night because we were running out of food. The last two hours I was open I had no lettuce or tomatoes and not one customer complained....they just kept thanking us for being open. Around 6:30 pm the power blinked out and I had a line out the door...all you heard was a unanimous "ahhhhhh" and I calmly said "I can keep making food if any one has flashlights"... and wham, about 4 flashlights were shining on the food line. It was so funny. There was a fire fighter that had a really good flashlight and he came behind the counter and stood right next to me to shine it down the line. The power was only out for about 4 min that time. So the sales we did Thursday and Friday are making up for the 3 days we were closed before Christmas with the 20 inches of snow.
So....for those of you in warm states.....ENJOY IT!!! xoxo Julie
posted by Julie Ann McManus | 3:45 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, Jules, it's Michelle. Our power came back on this afternoon, but we're at the In-law's in Dayton until the house warms up. That's hilarious about the people pulling out flashlights when the power went out at Subway! You should have added a pic or two of the ice carnage on the roads, though! I've got a couple good ones that show my road completely closed by icy trees bent to the ground from both sides of the road. Pretty neat. Plus our yard looks like "The Day After Hell Froze Over", since our trees have all snapped in half with tree trunks and limbs everywhere on the ground - just amazing.
;)
xoxo Michelle
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