Icy Humor
I know many of you are saying there isn’t anything funny about this weather and power outages. For the most part that is true. But my husband and I decided to try to make the best of it, particularly since we didn’t have any choice.
After having nothing hot to eat or drink for two days, I remembered we had an outdoor grill. Yes, I know, “duh!” Anyway, I managed to get a pot of hot water boiling with tea bags and poured that into a thermos. I made a couple of hot sandwiches and then the propane ran out. OK, what next?
My husband decided to fire up our small chiminea. Guess what, you can do a baked potato in a chiminea. If you find a grill to put over the top, you can make a cup of hot chocolate. I then ran out of ideas and the wood chips for the chiminea. We were reduced to coming up with creative ideas for the shadows being cast on the ceiling by our candle. Those ideas ranged from an alien rabbit to a really angry moose.
Seriously, I am worried about folks who don’t have enough warm blankets or can’t get to a shelter. I’m sad for the many trees that we all have lost and that will take years to replace. But I learned a lesson: Being forced to slow down and spend some quality, if chilly, time with a loved one is something we should do more often and not just when nature makes that decision for us!
Sue Hale
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I guess the man above is telling us something all the time, we just have to figure out what it is, maybe everybody does have to slow down and huddle around the fire places, and remember the old times and get to really know one another in the family, after all when do you get time to visit family. Is working overtime, paying your electric, watching T.V.; being on the computer; reading; more important than, just being around your family?
I am more concerned as to why the utilities are not buried in Oklahoma. Most areas, save the rural dwellers, have buried electrical lines in Illinois. We are accustomed to similar storms in all seasons. Why has Oklahoma not moved in this direction? It is to the point of negligence on the part of utilities and public endangerment.