Oh boy, last week was a WEEK! The weekend before was fairly uneventful, Lynsey had to take care of this electronic baby for a class for the weekend - it cried during the night and everything. Gone are the days of teachers asking you to dress up an egg and take care of it for a few days, this thing was legit! She did a good job of taking care of it and didn't shirk her responsibilities at all:-).
Tuesday is where the "fun" began. It was actually was a good day, Lynsey had her year end volleyball banquet so we all attended and it was a nice send off to a great season. The bomb cyclone everyone was talking about was just getting started when we left the gym, I was thinking we might get away without much happening (as is often the case with these big storm warnings - much ado about nothing). Well, unfortunately this storm was the real deal. We lost power around 10:30 that night, and I just knew it wouldn't be a quick outage. The next morning, the PSE outage map was bright red with outages - over 400K people without power on the eastside alone! Yikes! There were some mercies, as the gym was in this small area of Redmond that never lost power - I was able to go work out, charge my phone, feel human. Another mercy we had was that we have a gas water heater so we always had hot water for showers etc.
Anyway, Wednesday was a rough day as we were trying to stay warm in a cold house. We didn't have a lot of firewood so we were trying to ration it. When it started to get dark, Brian said we need to get a hotel room the next day. It is really not fun to be in a cold dark house for so many hours (as it gets dark at 5 now of course). We survived until the next morning but it was much colder than the night before! We had booked a few rooms in a hotel in Monroe and made arrangements to put our freezer food in Jaqui and Joey's freezer (our fridge was okay because I had managed to snag some bagged ice Wednesday morning). We took off shortly after lunch and enjoyed the afternoon in the warmth at the hotel. It was a decent hotel actually for the price so it wasn't a bad situation. We get takeout for dinner, and around 7 Brian gets a notification that our furnace is back on! Yay we got power back! We were so excited, I truly thought we wouldn't get it back until Saturday (this was the blanket estimate PSE was giving people). We decided to stay put at the hotel for the night since we were all settled, but it was so nice to get settled back into a warm house the next day!
I feel like it took a whole day to get caught up in the house. I felt so lucky, there were still so many people out of power. It took several more days for lots of people to get power back. Most people got it back Friday and Saturday, but there were some that didn't get it back until Sunday and even Monday. Looking at the outage map now, a full week after the storm, it looks like PSE is all caught up and only 800 people out of power (and some of those are random outages that just happened, not all from the storm). What a crazy week! I'm so glad that is over and we managed okay, I know a lot of people were worse off than us.
Sunday we went to church in the morning and I had makeup tryouts for my club team. We needed three players and we found three players, a really good setter which I was particularly excited about, and a few hitters. Two of the three signed, looks like the other one is going to sign shortly. We had our first practice yesterday and it actually went really well! I am so excited for the season. I had a quick parent meeting which was good, I like to feel organized to start the season. Today I found out one of the girls I picked up (not the setter thankfully) is actually U17 age and can't play for my team after all! I'm so bummed, I liked her! She might play for the U18s though, hopefully she still gets to play. Now we need to find another player and I just don't know who that will be:-/. Hopefully it works out.
Today and tomorrow were and will be about appointments and getting ready for our trip to Cancun on Thursday! I can't believe it's so close, starting to get very anxious and excited! Tomorrow in particular will be a very busy day getting all the laundry and packing done. We are going with only carryon bags so packing is a bit of a challenge. I think we can do it, I've already packed 3 of our 5 allowed liquid bags with all our sunscreen. It will be close but it will be so nice to not have to worry about a checked bag! Hopefully we think it's worth it when we get to the airport and can just walk straight to our shuttle:-).
See you after we get back! Hopefully with a nice tan!
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