October
29 via mobile
Heard a loud pop and then
DARKNESS!!
October
30 via mobile
We're safe! Thank you everyone
that tried to reach us during the storm. My messages are now coming through. No
power. Power lines down in neighbors backyard. LIPA can't restore power until
they address the power lines.
Sitting
in the car with my Linkster while rest of house sleeps.
Praying
for recovery for all in Sandy's path.
October
31
Thank God for great friends XX and
XX for opening their home for Link and I to get a hot shower and some heat on
this our Day 3 of no power. Feeling blessed and clean and warm!
October 31
As for an update, I still have no power
LIPA is saying it could be up to 10 days. Cell phone cannot make or receive
phone calls, texting only works in spurts. Those that have called I appreciate
the calls, and have tried to respond via text. If you left messages I am only
now receiving them at my friends house.
No work
or school for me or the kids as much of our town is still without power. I will
try to keep everyone posted as best I can. Praying for everyone as we all try
to recover.
October
31
Thank you Lord for our fireplace tonight for
a little warmth!
November
1 via mobile
Day 4. Last
night was pretty cold
but I hunkered down with Link under a ton of blankets to stay warm.
Today we
start the task of seeing what can be saved out of the freezer. The fridge was
emptied yesterday.
November
2 via mobile
Gas station
on Hempstead and Jerusalem
just opened. The line is 6 blocks long. We have cops and the army directing. I
asked an officer and the wait is approximately 3 hours!
November
2 via mobile
Day 5 of no
power:
Getting an early start this morning.
First hunt for gas and
wood.
Then food and for the first time since college, off to the laundromat.
Feels
like 40 degrees in the house. Brrrrrrrr!
November
2 via mobile
Power came
on for all of 10 minutes. That gave me just enough time to boil a pot of water and throw
the heat on to take the chill out the house.
I'll take
it!!
Thank you
Lord for small blessings!!
And a
special THANK YOU shout out to our neighbors for helping us secure a
generator!!!
November
2 via mobile
Gas station on XX and XX just opened. The line is 6 blocks
long. We have cops and the army directing. I asked an officer and the wait is
approximately 3 hours!
November
3 via mobile
End of Day 6 without power and feeling utterly blessed to have family who have
power. 2nd night of warmth. Praying for those without. Power is no big deal but
not having heat for your family is, and I pray that everyone can find a little
warmth tonight.
November
4 via mobile
Day 7 no
power. Woke up at 5:45 to scour for gas. Found a 3 block line at the Valero Gas
station on Grand Avenue and Milburn in Baldwin.
Lord cover
me as a sit and wait for gas this morning.
November
4 via mobile
Ladies car
in front of me stalled.
She has gas but car won't start. So in order to keep the line
moving and get gas I have to push her along.
Honda don't
fail me now!!
November
4
Thank you
Lord! Almost 2 hours later and I am still GRATEFUL!!!!
November
4 via mobile
Back at my
powerless home. Doing my best to warm things up before hubby comes home with the kiddies for bed.
Back to
work and school tomorrow. My poor Link now has a cold on top of everything
else. Praying that it won't get any worse overnight.
Spoke to
a human being at LIPA today, and we will possibly be without power till
Wednesday due to high voltage lines down on our power grid. Out of the 2000
homes on our grid, we are among 74 in this situation.
Prayers.
Prayers. Prayers.
November
4 via mobile
Missing
my TV tonight for real!!
No Black
Girls Rock
No
Walking Dead
No Housewives of Atlanta
November 5
near New York via mobile
Day 8 No
power
Woke up
at 1am and the 4am to keep the fire burning. Slept in my sweater and was lucky that I still
had Link's toddler Bundle Me
to slip him in to sleep. Have an extension cord running to neighbors house and
was able to plug in our space heater for Maddy and Link.
Going in
to work for first time in a week. Lets see how it goes!
November
5 via mobile
Thank you
Jesus!!! Our next door neighbor not only donated gas for our generator but he
"jumped" our boiler so that for the next few hours we have hot water for showers and heat in the house!!
God is oh
so very GOOD!!!
November 6
via mobile
Day 9
still no power. Tired and cold but I still voted!
People
beware:
My
polling site tried to pull the okey doke on me by telling me I was at the wrong
polling site. After going back and forth to different elementary schools, I
finally was told what to show the people at my site. When I got back there
(Stephen Korpezhek Elementary School) the same rude and belligerent man tried
to tell me again that I was wrong! This time I snatched the master list and
shut his ass up showing him that I was in fact in the right place!
I just
got off the phone with the Nassau Board of Elections and filed my complaint!!
Don't let
ignorant fools deter you from your higher plan!!
November
6 via mobile
Running
generator to heat house before kids get home from school while I tend the fire.
Just got to reach 65 degrees, then we do it again before bedtime!
November
7 via mobile
Day 10 of
no power.
Today we
are having a Nor'easter. I pray that everyone stays safe and warm.
I am
blessed to have a husband who will be driving to CT or NJ this morning to secure us gas cans and gas so that we can keep our
generator running for heat and hot water. Thank you Lord for such a selfless
husband.
November
7 via mobile
Feeling
all kinds of love right now!
Thank you
to the xx (former students) family for donating a car trunk full of wood! Thank
you to the Toremator for getting us a 5 gallon can full of gas from upstate! Thank you to Link's daycare for donating
a pot to use on the fireplace since its too cold and snowing to use the grill
outside!
And thank
you thank you thank you to my husband who filled our generator and then woke up
out of his sleep to turn it on so that the house would be warm for us when we
got home - and for coming up with the idea to use sternos to heat food!!! Why
didn't I think of that?!?!
Thank you
Lord for allowing me to have such amazingly caring people in my life!! Be
grateful for what you have, not what you don't!
November
8 via mobile
Day 11
still no power.
Looked
outside to see it's still snowing, and nothing has been plowed or salted. Temp
outside is 34 degrees. I just can't.
November
8 via mobile
Just got the call from Maddy's school district due to
the excessive snow more power lines came down last night and they are closing
the schools.
Sigh.
Trying very very hard to stay positive about all this.
November 9
via mobile
Day 12 of
no power.
Rumors
have now taken over where LIPA is concerned. You can't get a human being on the
phone to save your life. Some people are saying power won't be back til
thanksgiving. Others say in 3 months. Who knows the real answer? LIPA!
I know what
I now appreciate and take for granted. If there was a lesson to learn, I think
many have learned by now. What more can be gained from all of this? Who is
being held accountable for all of this? What about all the children in the
cold? What about all the elderly? What about all the sick that rely on power
for their machines or medications?
I am
grateful for my family, my health and my home, I just really want the power
back on! And the idea of another month, week, day, minute, or second is just
too much for so many.
Saturday via mobile
Day 13 of
no power.
God
doesn't put anything on us that we can't handle, right? Well, at 11:30 last
night Coffee decided to throw up profusely all over the living room. After
clean up it took an hour to get a live vet on the phone. Long story short after a possible cat bite and
antibiotics earlier this week, I have to bring her in first thing this morning
to get checked.
Never a
dull moment.
Saturday
via mobile
Lipa is
finally here! They are in the house behind neighbor. Spoke to one of the
surveyors and he has absolutely no ide, he looked lost and confused by my
questions but at least they're finally here looking.
Saturday
via mobile
Anyone
watching on News12 the CEO and COO of LIPA making promises that "power will be restored by Tuesday to all
residents able to receive power".
Hm?
Sunday via mobile
Day 14 of
no power.
It's
officially been 2 weeks of us having no power.
What else
can I say?
I'm going
to church!
Sunday via
mobile
Night of
Day 14 and power has been restored! (Not by LIPA!!)
Thank you
to every single person that offered prayers, their home, encouragement,
showers, heat, and love. This was definitely one of those times where I was grateful for the friends and family I
have on FB.
I thank
you Lord for all you have done for us and by us!!!
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