Powerless

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

Author Unknown

Some strange, strange happenings in the world of weather around these parts this winter. Today the temperature began in the mid 40's and at night fall was hovering around 15. The rapid drop was brought by a shifting front and the front had 60 knot winds associated with it. 60 knot winds and tall trees near powerlines is a pretty bad combination. By 2pm our house had lost power and it seemed for a while that we would not get it back for a day or two.
Thankfully, that was not the outcome as the power company was able to restore power to our neighborhood by 6pm. As I am sure you can probably tell, we do not have a generator in case we lose electricity for a long period of time. We have a small, portable generator that can power the house but it is quite noisy, needs gasoline to run and requires some set-up. Most of our neighbors have automatic generator that click on when their house loses power, they can power the house indefinitely, or at least until they run out of propane.
Never have I thought about this before, it was never an issue, if the house lost power my wife and I could just pick up and move to a hotel or we could have a fun night in the house with candles and blankets. With the baby, I always worry that if we lose power, and with it heat, something bad is going to happen. Traveling, or just going out of the house, is a huge process now. We need to remember all of the things that the baby needs, get the baby ready to go out, pack up the truck and then we can leave. Without power, heat, and lights gathering all that stuff is going to be a lot more challenging.
Our family is going to look into getting an automatic generator in our next house so I can cross this worry off my list.