Icemaggedon

Last Wednesday, we had one of the biggest ice storms Augusta has ever seen!! It was crazy! Freezing rain, sleet, rain, snow, wind, power outages, branches and debris EVERYWHERE, trees down and to top it all off a 4.1 earthquake! Yes, that's right, an EARTHQUAKE!

Let me go back to the beginning. We had a winter storm warning from Tuesday at midnight until Thursday morning. We woke up Wed morning and this is what we saw. Freezing rain over night accumulating about a 1/2 inch, there were trees down and nobody on the roads. Schools cancelled and most all public places closed, including John Deere, so Ryan was home. We still had power but had be warned over and over that power outages would be likely and to BE PREPARED. 

Vince got a basketball for Valentines day. We celebrated early.

Pretty much all day Wednesday it was either freezing rain, sleeting, some rain or snowing. More and more branches were falling and we were just waiting. We had power all the way up until about 9PM where it went out for about 30 min then came back on. We counted our blessings and went to bed. The next morning is when it changed. It had freezing rained throughout the night and now there was at least an inch of ice EVERYWHERE and no power. It went off about 4AM. This is what it looked like outside.

We thankfully has a gas fireplace and gas heating for our water, so we had heat and warm water. We are very blessed to have modern day prophets as well, who, for years, have been telling us to have food and water storage and be prepared for emergencies. We bought a generator 2 Christmases ago and finally put it to use! 

This was Vince's "fort" where he slept so he was warm enough. It was closer to the fire than in his room.

Here's some more pictures from the storm

This branch fell and literally stabbed into the ground, good thing we weren't out there!

We started putting our food outside to keep it from going bad before we started up the generator.

We decided to venture out and see what other damage was done.

Thankfully out power came on Friday around 6PM. Our power was off for a day and a half which seemed like a long time but we had friends at church who still didn't have power on Sunday! We saw trees down on houses, power lines downed, just debris and mess everywhere! We were so thankful that we were prepared and everyone was safe. Ryan truly took care of us (my 3 best friends came over for the weekend as well. We had been planning this get together for a year and it happened to be on this crazy weekend. I'll have pictures in the next post.), he's amazing and such a man! So as I said, the power came on Friday evening and we thought the craziness was over and then at 10:30 PM was had the earthquake! It was so weird. I've been in a 6.8 earthquake in Washington and that was huge.This definitely wasn't as big but, I guess it just really caught me off guard because I really wouldn't expect an earthquake down here. It shook the whole house and felt like a big shock wave going through the house for about 5 seconds and was then over. No damage but shook our nerves a little. Thankfully everything pretty much melted over the weekend and the past 2 days have been 80! haha