Snow Bother

It began snowing here just before 6pm last night. It was very windy and the snow was actually coming down sideways, next thing we know, the electric went off. It's not unusual for us to have power cuts here so I left it 10 mins then phoned the power supplier to find out when it was going to be back on. When I phoned nobody else had reported it, only us and it was only us with none in our area. We would have to wait for an engineer, that would take 3-4 hours!

Obviously the heating had gone off too. I had got my mum and dad visiting so we all ended up sat on the sofa in a line, a blanket and dog each on our knees to keep warm and watched a film on my iPad which happened to be fully charged. Me and dad ventured to the barn to get the camping stove and gas so we could have a brew and that warmed us up.

After almost 3 hours the engineers arrived and discovered that the power cables had twisted over themselves in the wind and then cut off. They had to get up in their extendable bucket thing to the lines to unwrap them and then put in a new fuse in the electric pole. By this time the snow had been coming down for a while and was quite deep. Thankfully it all got sorted, not like us to have an adventure though :)

Today we took the doggies out to play in the snow, they all went a bit mad and got very excited. The River Ancholme which is outside our house is frozen. Mum and Dad decided to leave after lunch in the hope they would get home before dark, we did have to push my dads car a bit and then I went ahead of them in our 4x4 to the main road to make sure they got there ok.  I don't think we are due any more thankfully, just need to wait for this lot to melt now!