Most of you know or have probably heard, MA has been declared a state of emergency by Obama with this last snow storm. We got 12+ inches of wet, heavy snow that stuck to all of the leaves that were still on the trees. That resulted in downed trees, limbs, power and communication lines and basically a complete mess. We have been without power since Saturday at 5pm. More than 80% of Springfield is without power...3 million total between MA and CT. By the Grace of God, Brad's mom never lost power. We have been here since Sunday morning. They are forecasting that we will have power back by Friday at noon. Cross your fingers! All schools have been canceled through the week and they actually CANCELED HALLOWEEN!!! The local mall has this thing called "Mall-O-Ween" each year so we decided to go there to do some trick-or-treating along with 3000+ other people! It was nuts, but I think we made a good decision. Alexander had fun and we ran into some friends from church! Their 3 year old son who is friends with Alexander dressed up as a conductor! Alexander was Thomas the train!!! Their costumes were completely unplanned as was our meeting. Here are some pics of the storm and of our Mall-O-Ween experience. Oh, to top it all off, Alexander now has a stomach bug and was throwing up and having diarrhea all night and today. Thank you in advance for all of your prayers!
hugs...
Tree in our front yard. Usually the branches are about 7 feet off the ground!
You can see how much snow we got.
Barry and Natalie's neighbor's tree that is now in their yard!
Alexander tucking into some waffles and reading over the "Cars" DVD case!
Alexander and his friend Ben at Mall-O-Ween! Do I spy an envious look from the conductor???
My little Thomas the Train! I'm glad he got to wear his costume. I spent SO long on it!
Of course he got tired of wearing it so Barry decided to put it on! Alexander thought Djadiew made a great Thomas!
Maybe next Halloween will have more treats than tricks!
Glad to hear you have a place that has power. The same thing happened here in Buffalo 5 years ago- it was a disaster!
ReplyDeleteAdam was 3 months old and we were the fortunate ones to have power. Tara and Jeremiah lived with us for 4 days with 12 day old Selah and JJ... crazy at the time, but today one of the best memories ever...