Sunday, January 09, 2005

That icy, cold feeling

Tuesday, January 4th, 2PM. A large ice storm moves into Wichita and takes down the large tree in our backyard. That tree then falls onto the electric line to our house and pulls it down. So, no power and no heat since. We've been living in a hotel waiting for power to be restored, which could be Wednesday or Thursday of this week, due to the massive number of power outages in the area. Oddly enough, the phone and cable (same company) were also cut off, but that was repaired in just two days. We would have just stayed in the house, but the three days following the ice storm had temperatures well below freezing. Monday morning a kerosene heater will be delivered and we'll move back into the dark house. And I've had to work EVERYDAY this week. Ask me how I feel about Kansas...

On a good note: the #1 ranked University of Illinois men's basketball team is still undefeated! Go Illini!