Alfred Day 2 Sunday October 30th

 So here's what the uncandle's look like. We have them in 3 sizes and these appear to be the shortest.

Sunday began with Bob starting a fire so we could thaw before putting together breakfast. Once the sun is up the living room warms up a bit on its own and we were lucky that the overnight temperature didn't drop more than it did.  Later in the week when power had returned I had to ask Bob what we did on Sunday- we shoveled. We didn't get that much snow...maybe 6 inches, but it was wet and very heavy. Not the kind of snow easily handled by a snow blower. We shoveled. And oh yes, Bob practiced using his brand new snow rake. For those of you lucky enough to live where it's warm a snow rake is like a giant squeegee that is angled in such a way that you can use it to pull accumulated snow off the roof so that 1) it doesn't accumulate enough to cause the roof to cave in and 2) the melting and freezing snow doesn't overflow the gutters and back up into the house. There was lots of that going on last winter and you had to be in the right place at the right time to get one of the few rakes available.

 Later in the afternoon we took a ride to see if there were any restaurants or stores open.  Jim's around the corner had cars in the parking lot but when we went inside it was dark and we were told they were not taking any more orders as it would be dark soon. We continued on Rt 75 thinking that power might be restored there due to its proximity to the airport....nope.  We crossed over back to 159 and started south. We noticed that the traffic lights on the other side of the river appeared to be working....a very good sign.

Let me take a break here and write a bit about what  should happen when a traffic light is not working. THe intersection becomes a 4 way stop. Period. Well don't count on it.  I may have stopped at every one of the 23 traffic lights on my way to work.....LOTS of folks just blew right through.  There is a big intersection near the office park where 20 lanes come together ....Yikes.

Ok, back to Sunday's search for light. We crossed the river over to Warehouse Point and found the local Geisslers had just opened. We pulled in the lot while the rest of the traffic on Rt 140 backed up. We later found out the back-up was caused by the lines waiting to fill up at the one gas station in the area that had power and could pump. We bought a few supplies for our larder and returned home to prepare for another dark night.