Home again, home again, jiggity-jig...

[tabaqui]

Yay, yay yay! Living in a motel might sound fun - Sam and Dean sure seem to have all sorts of adventures! - but really, it's not. It's *boring*, and it costs way too much money, and...
Yeah.

Anyway -we're home! WHeeeeeeee!! So, so glad. We had the cats with us at the last, there - it was just *so damn cold* in the house, and i felt so bad for them, all alone in the cold and the dark.

I said in my last post that it looked like the Arden here, post-fighting. Well, funny i should say that because my dad - a WWII vet - said that driving home from the store this afternoon, he was thinking it all looked familiar...and when he finally figured it out, he realized his town looked like a little French village he'd seen right after Normandy, that had been shelled to within an inch of its life.

So. My home state looks like the aftermath of war. So not good.

For those of you interested, here's a couple pictures. Pretty big, so dial-up beware!

The tree on the carport.

Nice crunchy close-up.

The whole mess!

And this? This is looking west from a good vantage point...we have sunlight! And clouds...

Currently, it's snowing. Light, fluffy, dry snow that probably won't stick. And omg, so, so cold. I like the cold. I really do! I just don't like the *ice*.

Skip 300 to catch up, and i've got bookmarks out the wazoo again. Sheesh! I missed you guys so much!
*hugs you all*

And now, i must sleeeeeeeeep. In my own comfy bed. Yes!
*blows kisses*

Comments

[tesla321.livejournal.com]

Poor bebes! We once had no power for three days, when I was in college. We cooked over a kerosene stove and went to bed reeeely early. So glad you're okay. You can skip me---I haven't been doing anything or writing anything!

[tabaqui]

If only we had had a kerosene stove!
Or a fireplace!
All electric *sucks*, man.

*pokes you*
Do something!!
:)

Thanks, bay-bee. I'm so, so glad to be home.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Welcome home!

We're still looking at more snow, and it isn't right. DONE with the stuff, it can go away now, thanks ever so.

Julia, it is weather which demands soup. Lots of soup.

[tabaqui]

Thank you!
Snow i don't mind. Snow i can do. Ice just sucks.

Tomato soup for me, please. With cheese toast.
:)

[margarks.livejournal.com]

Wow! You guys *really* got hit by that storm. It iced up here, but no where near what you got, looks like. I'm glad you guys are okay! *hugs*

[tabaqui]

Crazy, isn't it?
Sheesh!
*hugs back*
Thanks, bay-bee.

[tiger-lantern.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell.

Beautiful pictures- but, bloody hell! Destruction! Trees are *really* big when the top end comes down to say hi.

I lived sans electricity for quite a while; do you have any kind of metal bucket or barrel that could be used as a burner? However you will need something dry to burn so maybe scratch that idea.

Sleep well! Flights of angels (bearing soup) sing thee to thy rest.

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!
They *are* big! Skeery big.

We really had nothing at all to do...anything with. And while i'd 'camp' in my own house, it's not something i want to do with a nine-year-old.

Soup! Ahhhhh, soup.
:)

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pics, but such mayhem! Glad you're home. We're forecast a high wind all over the UK for Thursday, but I don't suppose it'll come close to your weather. :) Thank goodness!

[tabaqui]

Oh, i'm so glad to be home, too!

I hope you get *nothing* like this weather! Cold i can cope with, but the ice just sucks.

[kpbkwrm.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home! Generally my area gets at least one ice storm each year - we've been spared this time. Still the power company doesn't think its cost effective to bury the power lines so we have gas heat and hot water, gas logs, wood stove and a generator and just camp out when the power goes out.

Take care when the sun comes out for real - the ice falling out of the trees can be very dangerous.

[tabaqui]

We don't usually get ice. Maybe once every few years. Our next house for sure will have a propane tank or *something*. Gas heat, stove, water. A fireplace!

I hate electric stoves, anyway, and all-electric just...bugs me.
Today there's sun, yes. We'll see what kind of ice-lumps fall on the roof!

[tsavoritegarnet.livejournal.com]

burr! I know you said no power -- did the tree take out the lines as it viciously attacked your carport? Hotels get old really fast. I'm glad you're back home again. The tree pictures would be pretty if there weren't that pesky broken bit of carport mixed in. :-)

[tabaqui]

Nope - not really. Another tree in *another* part of the neighborhood took out the power.

It *is* pretty. Just deadly. Pretty and deadly....

Like Spike!
Wheeeeeee!!
:)

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Welcome baaaaaaack! That last picture was pretty! OMG!! I'm so damned glad none of you were hurt!

So. My home state looks like the aftermath of war. So not good.
Dayum.....

[tabaqui]

*hug hug*
Thank you!

Yeah, so pretty but so eeeevol!!
Like cats. Heee.

[fanbot.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home. Hey, at least it was just the carport!
What a pretty view you have!
And.... watch for a small package in the mail in thanks for the pants.
*hugs*

[tabaqui]

Yup - could have been the house, so we lucked out!

Ooh, package!
You didn't have to do that, bay-bee.
*hugs back*

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! Glad you all are home safe with kitties! *sends cocoa*

[tabaqui]

Oooh, cocoa!
:)
*smooch*
Thanks!

[riani1.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Pennsylvania, so I remember ice storms. Big ass storm, bright shiny sunlight, the woods full of explosions as the trees begin coming apart from the ice on the branches. So gorgeous and sparkly and deadly. The air full of the sound of wind chimes that is the little icy twigs hitting together.

We kept an ice-encased pine twig in the freezer for months.

Welcome home!

[tabaqui]

Yup. When we were outside surveying the damage, we could hear trees cracking all around, like gunshots. What a mess.

Glad to be home!
:)

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

Those photos are just beautiful, which is entirely not right. Glad it was just the carport ... and as I was typing that a set of windchimes fell from the ledge of my desk and scared what's left of the bejesus out of me so ... I'll just say I'm glad all is well now. Eep!

[tabaqui]

I know, isn't it pretty? Sheesh!
*pet pet*
Don't be skeered!

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you're home again -- a forced evacuation is nothing like a vacation. And ice storms are strange things. So dangerous and damaging but at the same time the landscape is so beautiful.

[tabaqui]

Nope, it's just...blah!
I just wanted to be home, so, yay!
Plus - missed the cats!
They were a little freaked by the hotel but were ultimately okay.

[moimoietmoi.livejournal.com]

Even though I feel sorry for your house, I love the pics you took.
I am glad you're home safe now!

[tabaqui]

Hehe.
Well, Cat took 'em, but thank you!
They *are* pretty. Ice is *very* pretty. Just damn deadly!

Thanks! I'm glad, too.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Yike! Beautiful scenery but tell it it's not supposed to visit, k? *g*

{{{hugs}}}

[tabaqui]

Heeee!
Yes!
*smoooch*

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

Ow! We're iced in too. Most of northern Mo. looks like an ice skating rink. Ugh. So sorry to see the distruction. *hugs*

[tabaqui]

Yup, it's crazy. But they say it'll be warmer, so...hopefully it'll all melt!
*hugs back*

[anelith.livejournal.com]

What an adventure -- but I'm so glad for your sake that it's over. Those pictures are incredible! I'm imagining what it must look like now with the fluffy snow on top of the ice, if any of it stuck.

How did the cats like the hotel? I remember our only experience of cats in a hotel, when we were moving from New Jersey up here to Massachusetts and stopped for the night somewhere, I think in Maryland. We stayed at a motel and were so scared they would throw us out if they found out we had the two cats. Took all sorts of precautions to keep them a secret! Turned up the TV to drown out their mews when we had to run out for food at the restaurant across the street, for example.

I hope it isn't awful getting the carport fixed.

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!
The place we stayed allows pets. When i went to give the guy the pet deposit - a very nice man from India - he said 'thank you so much for being honest about your pets'.

I constructed a three-sided 'box' made of trash bags and layered trash bags and newspaper on the floor under their litterbox. Just in case. They did really well, though. They freaked a little and did that 'stare hard at *everything* omg!' thing for a while, then they just settled down and laid on the beds with us. Or looked out the window. I was so happy to be with my cats again! I really missed them.

The carport's still standing and it's not all - wobbly or anything, so it's no hurry to get it fixed. We have to wait and see about insurance and stuff, so...

Yay! Home!
:)

[taruma16.livejournal.com]

Oh my f*** god!
It's all iced, just a bit of snow!
I get frostbites just looking at the pics!
*big hugs*

[tabaqui]

*rubs your chillblains*

It's not so bad anymore, but yeah - ice!
*smoooch*

[piratepurple.livejournal.com]

*smishes* I'm glad you're all okay and able to be back at home. :)

[tabaqui]

*smishes back*
Thanks!
Me too. Hotels are fun but...not when you have to *live* there.
Sheesh.

[rei-c.livejournal.com]

So, boo to general destruction, but so pretty!

[tabaqui]

Yes!
And it was all super-pretty this morning, with the sun up and shining all icy-gold through the still-ice-covered trees.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're back with the power. I've been catching up on flist all weekend, so I saw your first post, but it was so old, I was hoping for better news of you all.
The last picture is kind of pretty - with the ice encrusted grasses and ferns, but it does look cold.
I hope you're all okay now and the car port was the only bit of the house that took damage (small mercies, and all that). Keep well and warm.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, so far the carport is it, unless there's damage on the roof that we don't see yet.
*crosses fingers*

We got snow last night, so pretty again! but also - slippery. Heh.
*hugs*
Thanks for the note - we're doing pretty good!

[txrabbit.livejournal.com]

Goodness, love!

Very stunning visuals.

I'm glad you guys are all okay. *smootch*

[tabaqui]

Yup, doing good now! We got snow last night, not too much, so it's really *pretty* outside but - everything is *still* covered in ice.
*smooch*

[(Anonymous)]

Ouch! The ice on the branches is really pretty, but I know that's not much consolation for the damage. I'm glad you guys weren't hurt and that your car survived okay!

[tabaqui]

It's so *very* pretty but yes, after it comes smashing down you sort of lose your attraction to it. We had lumps of ice dropping down for days. Sheesh.

I'm glad we were all okay, too - it was pretty crazy there for a few days!