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[frenzy]

Went to the brewery. Thought a pipe burst. Water every where. Not in the worst places though. Mopped up as much as we could. Put buckets under all the drips. Z goes into the attic. It’s not a burst pipe but a giant hole in the roof. Dios mio this never ends. I keep saying “lord have mercy” but no mercy comes. Proof god isn’t real I guess.

I help with the beer which is almost fun if it weren’t for the circumstance.

Go home. What we feared was true: all my fish are dead. The power never once came back on. It’d a painless death but I’m so sad. I loved those fish. The inside has frost on things. We gather what we need, mostly food. The pipe that burst must have burst outside at least.

Roads weren’t the worst but weren’t any fun either.

The city won’t acknowledge all the people dying of carbon monoxide or freezing to death. Just saying we “have” to keep people without power for the hospitals.

Grateful to still be staying with friends , warm and safe with the cats, but this is a nightmare. And people online laughing at us, laughing at our lack of infrastructure, or blaming our politics is fucked up. Red state or blue state, no one deserves this.

One day at a time.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I'm so sorry about your fish. I'm glad you guys and the cats are safe, at least. I look at those photos and all I can feel is burning rage.

[katiedid717]

I think a lot of people up here forget that our homes are designed to withstand colder weather and that plowing/salting/sanding is part of our annual experience and expense. I remember something similar happening in Alabama about 12 years ago, where they got about an inch of snow and their roads were shut down for like three days. We were laughing about it up here because an inch of snow is nothing! But when you don't have snowplows, you don't have sand/ice melt, you aren't used to that kind of weather...it's a big deal.

I saw something on r/DuggarsSnark last night where the poster was talking about how one of the older married Duggar girls was being unsafe by running her oven with the door open to help heat the house. A lot of commenters replied along the lines of "My heat has been running nonstop and it's still only 50 degrees in my house, we're all doing this right now, our houses aren't built for this" and it was really eye opening. My HVAC system was struggling to warm up my home a couple weeks ago when I woke up to temperatures in the teens, but that meant that it was holding at the 65 degree temp I use overnight instead of getting up to the 68 degrees I prefer when I'm home on weekends. The thought of a house not being insulated against the cold is so far from my lived experience that it can be hard to wrap my head around

[frenzy]

Yeah I couldn’t make 65 degrees in my living room even if I wanted to when it’s a mere 40.

I could have prepared better if I had known this was coming. Appt they knew they would have to do this and just didn’t tell anyone.

I also used my stove and oven before I left. What can you do? Frost settled in the house. I left when it was 40something but when I went back it was well below freezing in that house.

I’m a Wisconsinite. I love to maybe laugh when folks panic over an inch of snow. But now people are without power and people are dying.

*sigh* sorry I’m kinda rambling but I’m all over the place.

[katiedid717]

Hey, ramble away - I'm obviously not glad that you're going through this, but I do appreciate getting the insider's view because, like I said, this is so outside my realm of experience.

[ioplokon]

Glad you have somewhere safe to stay. Sorry about your poor fish and everything else.