R's rue

second photo down is my house but you can't see it, lol.  Everyone would go to Goodwins Market to charge their phones in the parking lot where they could get WiFi connection. The amount of snow wasn't that bad - about 16" i think.  It was the ice that caused the outage.  The melt is going pretty good today and for the next week as temps rise. The first outage was about 2 hours - not bad - we had our grandson Cayden up for several days  and we simply took it in stride and played games.  Then the next day it was a 5 hour outage (of course there is no way to know how long it will last)...  Once again we kept positive and even though it was dark and freezing (happened just after delicious pasta meal that Mike cooked) we got out the lanterns and played gin.  Then again the next day  power out and it went on and on and on (about 20 hours). So several times we made it down our road which was icy and trucks with cinder to lay down on the road had never made it to our road.  We wen...