Atlas

Uh yeah, so about that 24 day challenge. All was going just peachy and then this little thing called "Atlas" blew our doors off and all $hit went out the window.

So there's that. Here we are almost 24 days later and I should be 10 pounds thinner, but instead I'm exactly the same because when a snow storm hits an electric cooperative and blows over 4,000 poles down, $hit gets real. Real ugly.

We, at home were out of power for 14 days. Thankfully those 14 days are past and we are back on the living side of the storm. Work is getting back to normal this week, as we have all of our members back on also. Some went 17 days without power. Ugh. Thankfully after the last few whopper's of storms we have had up here, we invested in a generator. The outage we had in 2010, we were out for 10 days. The one before that was 3 days and we didn't have a generator. Which quickly prompted the purchase of said generator. There's just no way. No way to suck it up and get through it without one. I am a lot of things, and tough is one title I think I can wear, but toughing it out with no power. Nope. Not doing it. Not to mention the freezers full of food that rot after 14 days. Not happening.

We were incredibly fortunate and did not suffer livestock losses. How we managed to be so lucky, I'll never know, definitely thankful. We ship calves next week, as we already have them sold to a private buyer. Thankful again that I don't have to deal with that stress, or rather the stress that causes Jed at a salebarn.

I'll blog more about the storm and the craziness of those two weeks from an electric employee's standpoint, in a bit.