Well, after arriving home from Gulf Shores with Robyn (see last post), I washed a couple of load of clothes, took a nap, and started to catch up on my recorded shows on TiVo. As I was finishing the 1st show, Kevin called. He was working and said there was a storm that was so bad it had knocked down trees and it was headed towards our house. He said to get ready because I was riding with him that night, he didn't want me home alone in case the power went out. Right as he got those words out of his mouth, the electricity started blinking on and off, then just went out completely. I went outside to see the yellow sky and the winds blowing like crazy. Days later, the news said they were Hurricane Force Winds. When he got home, there was no power. His boss said there was so much damage out there that they weren't running.
We decided to go find something to eat. As we drove thru Bartlett, it was crazy. There were trees everywhere. (we found out later that a tornado had touched down there) We got to Highway 64/Sycamore View which is usually a very busy intersection with lots of businesses. No one had power there except KFC and McDonald's. There were so many people lined up that it was probably gonna take over an hour to get food. We kept driving thru Bartlett and the only other places we found with power were Domino's and Milano's- both pizza. We decided on Milano's and brought some home figuring we'd probably get power later that night. We went to bed in the dark. Kevin got called in to work at 3 am, I stayed home. When Kevin got home, he said that half of the apts. had power and half didn't.
We drove around and went anywhere we could that had air conditioning. The 2nd night without air was horrible. We woke up around 4:00 am so hot we decided to get a hotel room. There are about 10 hotels near out apts. None of them had vacancies. We ended up topping off the gas tank, putting Joey's futon mattress in the back of my Blazer, and sleeping in there with the car running. The AC felt so good after being so hot for so long. Joey was still at mom's house. They didn't have power either, but they had generators and fans. We figured he was better off there.
We ended up not having power for over 48 hours. We found creative ways to stay cool, and spent all that time together without the tv. Now, that was something.. 48 hours w.o tv, and we survived. We actually had a good time together, and I'd love to have another 48 hour no tv time, I just prefer to have air conditioning when we do it.
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