The Shippenstitchers have been such Troopers as hurricane Helene trampled Southwestern Virginia, North carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and surrounding areas.
I was finally able to get to everyone yesterday and the Generac did just what it should have done for them - it kicked on and they were able to continue stitching and retreating through the severity of the storm. I am so glad!
We checked the amount of propane left in the huge tank that was running the generator in the house and it was at 30% by that time.
The decision was made to pack everyone up and send them safely on their ways home as the power situation here is so bad that we may be out of power until Wednesday morning. If that.
They would have surely run out of propane by today and found themselves in the dark anyhow.
We snapped this photo just before bugging everyone out. I have photos of projects and some over the porch real photos that I will be able to post after I have power back. I am posting this by phone and there is no way to edit photos well or to fix formatting so please bear with me.
Breakfast by Blackstone.
We have kerosene camping lanterns. We also keep some cash on hand for things like this if credit card purchases aren'tbeing accepted. The problem is that the gas stations are running out of fuel.
We keep several gas cans full at all times so we've got that to top things off as far as cars go.
We keep several gas cans full at all times so we've got that to top things off as far as cars go.
My van is at a full tank right now and the Subaru is at half tank and we're not going anywhere because we don't want to add to the problem on the road.
We have plenty of food and the propane we have in our huge propane tank is still at enough that we can run the big generator in the evening to charge all the things that we need charged and it will run the well pump so that we can shower, flush toilets and fill up water containers. And then when we go to bed we turn it all off again and wait till we need to turn it on again.
Looks like we were raised well and are very well prepared although this came on suddenly and we didn't know we would need to be THIS prepared.
We are now making lists of things to give each other for Christmas so that when this happens the next time we will be even better prepared..
Cell service is minimal but I'm happy that I can get text messages and email messages through. That really helps.
We have plenty of food and the propane we have in our huge propane tank is still at enough that we can run the big generator in the evening to charge all the things that we need charged and it will run the well pump so that we can shower, flush toilets and fill up water containers. And then when we go to bed we turn it all off again and wait till we need to turn it on again.
Looks like we were raised well and are very well prepared although this came on suddenly and we didn't know we would need to be THIS prepared.
We are now making lists of things to give each other for Christmas so that when this happens the next time we will be even better prepared..
Cell service is minimal but I'm happy that I can get text messages and email messages through. That really helps.
As far as projects go I have hexies out on the porch and really, all is well here. I know there are so many other folks that are worse off than we are and I'm just really grateful for the helps we received while in such a dire situation with Dave's injuries.
I will check in tomorrow with any further updates if I have them.
Regular blog posts will of course resume once we have power.
Until then - Go sew something!
Bonnie
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