Daily life: Snowstorm watch in Maryland
Feb. 6th, 2010 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duskpeterson"Wow! This is great!" I said, peering out Doug's study window at the snow.
"Until the electricity goes out," I added.
The power went out a half hour later. The situation at the moment is:
1) No cable modem, and none of the neighbors' wireless networks are working, which suggests that their power is out as well.
2) Doug's laptop doesn't have a battery, and my laptop battery is 20% down, so I'm only using my laptop for brief entries like this.
3) We have a battery-powered radio, so we're up to date on the latest news.
4) I haven't been insane enough to go outside - it's thirty degrees, with wind gusts up to thirty-five miles an hour - but the weatherman is reporting that our area has gotten twenty to twenty-five inches of snow, with five to ten more inches expected by the end of the day. Plus - he added in an offhand manner - we have another winter storm coming in three days.
5) The temperature inside isn't bad so far. I'm more worried about the tenants downstairs, but maybe the fact that they're under the snowline will help.
6) I'm cursing myself for not having bought a battery-powered humidifier before now. I'd put it off because I bought a new humidifier in the fall, and I didn't want to listen to Doug's grumbles if I bought two humidifiers in one season . . . but this is precisely the time of year when I need a humidifier on 24 hours a day. So I'm putting a wet washcloth over my eyes a lot.
7) I think I have enough eye drops to see me through this, but I'm being careful not to use too many.
8) We have a working landline phone, so I've been taking this opportunity to call friends to whom I owe phone calls.
9) On an up note, Doug and I put away the Christmas decorations a month before we usually get around to doing it. We've not much else to do.
(*Heads off to read braille book, having used up 5% of my laptop power writing this entry.*)
Later:
Our telephone line went dead at around two, when I was talking to Sphinxvictorian. I called my father on Doug's cell phone (which we only use for emergencies). Daddy's comment was, "This storm is stripping away all the amenities of civilization."
However, the power is back . . . for now. We'll see whether it survives the wind gusts. In the meantime, I'm posting this and refreshing my eyes with the humidifier.
"Until the electricity goes out," I added.
The power went out a half hour later. The situation at the moment is:
1) No cable modem, and none of the neighbors' wireless networks are working, which suggests that their power is out as well.
2) Doug's laptop doesn't have a battery, and my laptop battery is 20% down, so I'm only using my laptop for brief entries like this.
3) We have a battery-powered radio, so we're up to date on the latest news.
4) I haven't been insane enough to go outside - it's thirty degrees, with wind gusts up to thirty-five miles an hour - but the weatherman is reporting that our area has gotten twenty to twenty-five inches of snow, with five to ten more inches expected by the end of the day. Plus - he added in an offhand manner - we have another winter storm coming in three days.
5) The temperature inside isn't bad so far. I'm more worried about the tenants downstairs, but maybe the fact that they're under the snowline will help.
6) I'm cursing myself for not having bought a battery-powered humidifier before now. I'd put it off because I bought a new humidifier in the fall, and I didn't want to listen to Doug's grumbles if I bought two humidifiers in one season . . . but this is precisely the time of year when I need a humidifier on 24 hours a day. So I'm putting a wet washcloth over my eyes a lot.
7) I think I have enough eye drops to see me through this, but I'm being careful not to use too many.
8) We have a working landline phone, so I've been taking this opportunity to call friends to whom I owe phone calls.
9) On an up note, Doug and I put away the Christmas decorations a month before we usually get around to doing it. We've not much else to do.
(*Heads off to read braille book, having used up 5% of my laptop power writing this entry.*)
Later:
Our telephone line went dead at around two, when I was talking to Sphinxvictorian. I called my father on Doug's cell phone (which we only use for emergencies). Daddy's comment was, "This storm is stripping away all the amenities of civilization."
However, the power is back . . . for now. We'll see whether it survives the wind gusts. In the meantime, I'm posting this and refreshing my eyes with the humidifier.
