The storm did happen

We lost electricity Monday night/early Tuesday morning. The basement has water standing and of course, no sump pump working. Our friends that still have electricity in the north end of town came and picked us and the two poodles up and we spent the late afternoon/night with them. The poodles were very fussy last night and they say they did not hear them but we did. We were on an air mattress and I had difficulty getting up and down but at least we were warm and fed. We had little sleep but probably are not the only ones. We are still at our friends but when they are off work, we will probably go home, lights or not. Paul was to go over today and look at the basement situation. Mark took yesterday and today off to deal with this. No promise on when the lights will be back on but we are trying to be patient. With our dogs, it complicates things in a time like this but we are so happy we have them. The sheltie stayed home with her food/water inside. They have shelters set up but we just want to be home. Mark's mom and Ike have stayed home all along and are doing fine. We are trying to keep the poodles awake so they will sleep tonight. So for now, we join the multitudes in wantng some normacly back but realizing it could be much worse.