Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse Now, Snotorious B.I.G. call it what you will, the blizzard of 2010 was pretty miserable for us.
If you don’t follow my Twitter Feed/Facebook Wall, you might not know that last week’s snow storm was pretty traumatic for the family. Besides 55″ of snow, we had a town truck catch fire in front of our house, blocking us in (that’s my car just ahead of the truck.
Being trapped in the house wouldn’t have been so bad, except that our power went out about 30 minutes after truck got stuck. We were without power and heat for 32 hours, and it took Kim heating up the phones to get the plow moved in only 25 hours. While being stuck in the house for 1 day doesn’t sound so bad, the house was cold enough that we could see our breath (about 50 degrees). We all bundled up and the kids toughed it out; joining us in our bed for warmth overnight.
The big effort went on towards the end of the outage where we heated aquarium water on the stovetop and manually cycled water in all 5 (condensed from 6) fish tanks. At the onset the tanks were all around 55º, and we had to keep heating water and adding back to the tanks until they got into the 70º range. I think we saved all of the fish, but we might have lost my red cherry shrimp (at least I haven’t seen them since).