“Storm” Report

I woke up at 2:40 last night. Mostly just to use the bathroom. Then I looked out the window to see if the snow/sleet/ice had started. Just a little snow was on the roof of the back part of our house could be seen in the dark. Enough to know something had happened. There was nothing falling at 2:40. The other note I made was the power was on.

Of course, I could not go back to sleep. I tried all the regular tricks and eventually did the unthinkable. I looked at my phone. It is amazing what other middle aged women are also awake at that time of night. I had a mah Jongg question, which I answered. I had an email from a woman in Charleston that was sent at 4:34 AM about the potential of my coming there. I also answered.

I had a comment on Facebook from a college friend at almost 3:00 in the morning. I responded and said isn’t terrible we are both up. I know she is always up at those hours because she takes early morning walks in the dark! She said it’s just her way now.

I played wordle during this time and posted my results to my wordle group, made up of four college friends. On any given night one or more of us are doing wordle in the middle of the night.

Thankfully, due to the storm, everything for today was already pre-canceled. Even the dinner we were supposed to take my mother for since today is her 88th birthday! So I finally fell back to sleep after 5 and slept until 9 without any guilt.

We waited most of the day to see if the precipitation would start again. Finally at 6:00 the sleet started. It is noisy if you open the door, but except for forcing Shay to go outside, there is absolutely no reason to open the door.

Friends from far off places kept texting me asking if we had power. So far, and that is all I will say about that not wanting to jinx anything. Russ says the sleet is going to end and we are going to get thunderstorm and a little warm up in the middle of the night. A little warm up means it might get above freezing.

Let’s hope this is the extent of this situation. And maybe sleeping through the night.