Last week, I shared about how we survived our first hurricane. While the storm is over, the challenges are not. We have been without power for about nine days at this point.
Many people across Atlantic Canada lost power due to the storm. Many of those communities have since regained their power. That includes our own village of Brookfield.
While most of our neighbours have their power back, we are still without power. That is because one of the trees that came down ripped the power lines from the mast on our house. The tree has to be cleaned up and the wires reattached.
At this point, they are saying it will be done by late tomorrow night, although that date has been pushed back numerous times.
We have been making the best of it. For much of last week, we were at our cottage. Our cottage was out of the path of the worst of the storm and so we have power and water there.
We came back home because we had obligations on the weekend, including church. Since coming home, we have spent much of our time as a family at the church. Much of our food is in the church fridge and we cook our meals here. There is light and heat and internet. We just go home to sleep.
We are trying to get back to some sense of normalcy. On Sunday, we had a potluck lunch at Brookfield Baptist Church. We hadn’t had a potluck in a long time and it brought much comfort to us.
We are doing what we can. We rejoice with the news of each person we hear who regains power and we hope we are not too far behind them.
