Power went out at about 8:05 p.m. and has just been restored. Amazing. The storm is crazy. I'll take pictures tomorrow around the house and post tomorrow night. We can't see a thing because it is so black outside but we can hear the rage. The fury. Nature is freaking out around us. I can not imagine what it must be like to go through a really intense hurricance...don't want to know.

We called Nova Scotia Power right away. How long ago did your power go out, ma'am? Me; About 30 seconds ago. I had the phone number written down by the phone, just in case. Remember me; prepared for Armageddon??? A crew will be dispatched right away. We see or hear nothing for an hour. Mr C. calls back and tells them we have a 3 month old and 3 year old, shaving a digit off both for good measure...the woman reassures him that a crew has in fact been dispatched. I am in the bathroom with my lantern feeling very Little House on the Prairieish and wondering if my hair can really go tomorrow without being washed (we are on a well, which means we can not use water when there is no power...) when I see the lights of a power crew truck. We watch them from the window; amazing, the job these guys do. They earn every cent. Up in the bucket; blowing a gale and rain coming down in sheets. The lights turn on. Halleluja. But shit, we missed the Amazing Race....

How pathetic; this is all I miss...when people have recently lost their lives, their homes, their cities, their communities, their pets, life as they knew it. A small taste, not even. Really makes me think about all of them.

My hair could have been stringy tomorrow. I missed my favourite tv show. The house could have been a little chilly. Mr. C. would have gone to work in wrinkled clothes. We would have eaten donuts for breakfast. There wouldn't have been a hot cup of coffee. Big freaking shit.

Tonight I will pray for everything I have; the hugely wonderful things I have and hope and pray that the people who suffer from the wrath of recent storms will soon feel full again.

Hit Publish Post before the power goes again....