Ice, Ice and More Ice!

Greetings from the land of ice,

Missy Linda heard from Missy Elise last evening that the power at Missy Elise and Mr. Brett's house had been out since about noon. They have the three little girls who are eight, five and three. The one bright spot is that they have a little gas heater built into the wall in their family room which happens to be downstairs. The reason that it is good that it's downstairs is that they are staying in a place that is safe in case a giant tree falls onto their house. Evidently this is happening in their neighborhood. They keep the big branches trimmed from over the house because they have had ice storms before and knew that the branches could fall and do damage, but this is an entirely different dimension.

It seems that while we were getting mostly sleet and freezing drizzle, they were having heavy rain storms that were coating everything heavily. Missy Linda said that she had been over there in Fayetteville when the power was out for five days, and that was before there were any little girls to take care of. I know that at this point it's still, "We're going to camp in the house and read stories and have lanterns!" I know that would be fun for me for about three hours,
right?