Darkness

In case you can't tell, the room in the picture is suppose to be in complete darkness, well, except for the candle light.

Yesterday, along with about 30,000 people in the city of Memphis, we were victims of crazy windy weather. As I was looking at the disaster in our backyard, I felt a strong wind building up more and more. I was frozen to my spot for a second, because I wasn't really sure if it wasn't a tornado (as we were under a tornado watch). I watched the things on the ground lift of slightly, and spin out of control. No, it wasn't tornado, but that's how strong the wind was. Then I heard a snap, and all three lines coming to our house were torn off (power, cable and phone). I moved to the front of the house, to look outside, and saw all the neighbors standing at their front door, trying to see what's going on, there were tree branches falling off the big trees and breaking in half as they hit the ground. We all just kind of got together for a minute to check if everyone was OK, and if anybody needed any kind of help.

Memphis roads were in major chaos, as some of the bussiest streets lost their power to the traffic lights during the rush hour. You'd hear police sirens from all the sides... Very weird atmosphere.

And there we were, in our house, that was getting darker by the minute, waiting for Johnny to get home with the generator, with nothing to do. All of a sudden you realize how much you depend on modern conveniences. Ezra & Levi were crying, confused, and scared, confined to dining room, where we lit all the candles, and where they couldn't trip over something and hurt themselves.... It was also the only place where I could put the candles high enough where they couldn't reach them.

This morning we are still without power, but thanks to grandma we had wonderful warm muffins for breakfast, and we're hoping that it won't be more than another 12 hours before our power will be restored. But we'll see....

Ika