that wasn't so bad

We survived our first bad storm with 2 kids by taking the easy route and staying in a hotel. hahahahhaa.

The boys and I left early Friday afternoon to come home as I was chicken to drive home in the dark, rain AND wind. I'm glad we did as it was a white knuckled ride home. Since it was raining it was foggy and with the wind gusts blowing sheets of rain across it was hard to see anything. A few gusts had me thinking we were headed over the edge of the cliff! NOT FUN.

Anyway we get home and of course the power is out. No problem I think, I'm ready. I have long burning candles, lots of matches, lanterns, batteries, ready to eat food, water, we are set. Now whats missing?...... ummm how about HEAT? I totally didn't think about how our heater does not come on when the power is OFF. It is gas but the ignition is electric so no electricity no heat. I'm sure there is some way to make it go on but I have no idea how to do it. So I call the PGE outage line to see whats up and hear "we are aware of your outage, at this time we have no information on when power may be restored" Huh, so it could be minutes, could be hours, could be days. GREAT. If it was just me I'd have stayed but I did not want to try to keep 2 small children in a house with no heat. The electricity part wasn't worrisome just the heat part so we packed up and headed to Morro Bay to a hotel.

Lesson learned: 1) pack an overnight bag beforehand and stay in Paso so you don't have to drive over 46) 2) get the friggin fireplace checked so we can actually USE it.

So thats what I'm doing first thing Monday, calling the Sooty Goose to schedule an appointment for someone to come out and check it out.

Doesn't appear that there was too much damage from the storm. one house got some decking and rain gutter damage but thats all I've heard so far. Most of Cambria was without power for at least part of the past 2 days. We were the worst hit as far as outages go (as usual). we got almost 2" of rain this time. Next storm is supposed to begin tonight. Not supposed to be as bad wind wise but more of a steady on/off rain rather than big downpours. The surf was HUGE. In Cayucos there was seaweed on the bridge so there were some Big Ass waves last night.

I think Ronan has the travelling gene as he sleeps WAY better in a hotel than he does at home. Logan however does not. Its hard to get him to go to sleep, he's too excited. And then about midnight, he fell out of the bed and now has a bonk/carpet burn on his forehead. I'm not sure he even woke up, he did cry but Judd just picked him up, patted him a couple of times and he was out again. He sleeps with daddy in hotels and Judd said "its like sleeping with a windmill" I guess he is a pretty restless sleeper. heheheheee