My Electricity Thanksgiving

The electricity came on yesterday morning. A full one to two weeks earlier than it was supposed to. We have a deep freeze full of wonderful food that I would have been really sad to see go to waste, but luckily we had a propane generator. I have tomatoes that I grew in my own garden and blueberries that we picked this summer. We also shop every month at Sam's club and our freezer had lots of meat. Now it is only half full because we chose to eat the freezer stuff first instead of things in the pantry. We were prepared and never went hungry. And we never had to find a P.O.D. (Points of Distribution) for water, ice and MREs (Charles calls those "Meals that Refuse to Exit"). I might have actually gained weight since we were home and bored at times so we ate a little more. Charles went to work on Tuesday. I started back a half day on Friday. School is still closed and will reopen for students on Thursday next week. So he will probably go into daycare for three days. All of this because we had no electricity. We didn't go anywhere until yesterday because I didn't want to use any gas. For seven days Logan and I didn't leave our street and we were both going a little stir crazy. You still cant get gas in our town even though the power is back on. They are waiting for deliveries. That is hopefully something that FEMA will reevaluate. They need to stage more tankers next time. We even had a few stations that had generators and sold what they had but they shut down again because they couldn't get anything delivered. That seems a bit of a waste of a good generator to sit idle at a gas station. So we ventured out last night because Charles had to by some new boots for work. The town of Humble was mostly back to normal so we also decided to go out to eat at Chili's. Logan went a bit crazy! I'm sure he had low blood sugar at that point but he was so amped up about being out of our neighborhood that he couldn't stop smiling. It was really cute. But the stores closed at 8pm because the curfew was still in effect. So home we went. I am very glad we are back to normal. There are many people that lost everything and it will be a long time before they are back to normal. What is really heartbreaking is reading about the stories of people that moved here from NOLA when they lost everything in Katrina. And they show them cleaning up or loosing it all over again from Ike.