Sunday, February 28, 2010

 

The snow catastrophe






Last Friday, we had snow again, this time though it was a really big snow. I know I have said that before, but this one was Really big. See the pictures how beautiful was the house, the forest, and the street.



The newspapers said 24 inches of snow (60 cm) in Westchester area, where we live, and 16 inches in New York city. You can see the accumulated snow on top of our tiny solar lamp, and in the table.

But the really bad news is that half Westchester area collapsed, with power outages here and there. And of course we were among the victims. On Thursday night the power was gone, and with the power, the heating and the water because it comes from a well and it needs to be pumped up. On top of that the blowers didn't cache up and roads were not in a good shape, not mentioning our driveway so we were isolated with no electricity, no water, no heating and the worse, without internet!


We didn't know what was going on so we went out and we met the neighbors. And look what we found at the end of our driveway, a tree fell down on the power line, cutting the road.

The neighbors were very kind and took us out to the supermarket so that we could buy some water and candles and we went out for dinner. It was pretty cold in the house but with the fire place we could keep warm. On Sunday everything came back to normal, even Internet. It was an interesting experience, thanks god we expect the baby in the summer.






Divendres passat va tornar a nevar, pero aquest cop va ser una gran nevada, si, ja se que ja ho he dit abans pero aquest cop va ser Gran de veritat. Mira que bonica la casa, el bosc i el carrer.



Els diaris deien 60 cm de neu a Westchester, que és on vivim, i 40 cm a la ciutat de Nova York. Davant de casa, mira la neu acumulada a sobre la nostre petita llum solar, i a sobre la taula.

Però la mala noticia és que Westchester va quedar paralitzat, amb talls de corrent per tot arreu i, com no, vam formar part dels afectats. Dijous a la nit va marxar la corrent, i amb la corrent ens vem quedar sense calefacció i sense aigua, perquè l'aigua ve d'un pou i necessita ser bombejada. A sobre les màquines lleva-neu no donaven l'avast i les carreteres no estaven en gaire bones condicions, pero les carreteres rai es van recuperar ràpid però el nostre driveway va quedar totalment cobert de neu amb la qual cosa vam quedar aïllats, sense electricitat, ni calefacció ni aigua i el pitjor, sense Internet!




No sabiem si n'hi havia per molt o que així que vam anar a fer una visita als veins. I mira la sorpresa que ens vem trobar al final del driveway, un arbre caigut sobre el cable elèctric i tallant la carretera.

Els veins, molt amables, ens van portar fins al super i vem poder comprar aigua i veles, i vem anar a sopar plegats. Feia una mica de fred a casa però amb el foc a terra no s'estava tan malament. El diumenge tot va tornar a la normalitat, fins hi tot tenim internet.

Una experiència interessant, sort que el nen ha de neixer al estiu!

Comments:
Montse, vives en un sitio precioso, aunque con alguna incomodidad de vez en cuando...
Que os vaya muy bien a los 3!
 
Si, la verdad es que me mola vivir en el bosque, parece la cabanya de Martin ! jaja si quereis visitarme ya sabeis ;)
un abrazote!
 
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