Blog Number 270

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

My wife and I both had the same dream last night.  Actually, we both had the same nightmare.  We dreamt that we woke up and we were in Indiana...

 

We woke up to about 3 inches of snow.  This is nothing for us former Hoosiers but based on my drive to work I am thinking that most Texans do not know how to drive on snow and ice.  It was not that bad actually and only took me an extra 10 minutes to get to work.  The men's Bible study at church this morning was a little sparse as well and we actually spent the first 15 minutes or so drinking coffee and trading snowbound stories.  I listened and then chimed in with the time about 15 years ago when we lost electricity for 10 days.  There was a really bad ice storm and the 5 story tall power lines that ran in the field behind our house were crushed under the weight of the ice.  I mean it looked like Godzilla had come and stepped on them.  I have never seen metal that thick twisted that bad.  Ironically, we were only 2 1/2 miles from the main power station that served most of our half of our county.  But for whatever reason, our road was serviced last and for 10 days we heated our house with our wood burning stove (this was not a change as it was the sole source of heat before the power went out).  I still drove to work each day, I just headed in a little early and stopped in at my grandmother's house to shower as she was lucky enough to get power back quickly.  When I came home late at night (I worked afternoons at the bowling alley) and my mom left a candle lit for me so I could see around the house when I came home.  We baked some cookie dough that was left in the fridge on the stove and melted snow for water to flush the toilet.  I really cannot think of any bad memories from those 10 days.  I even remember that the pastor had comically divided the left and right pews at church on Sunday and marked them as "clean" and "unclean".

Anyway, by the time I drove home today all the snow was gone and it was in the 50's and tomorrow it will be in the 60's so maybe winter is over.  From the hail storm 2 weeks ago and the snow last night our family is ready for the promised mild Texas winter to be over.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon