Post by dazeepetals on Jan 3, 2022 15:06:10 GMT
Thank you everyone. I have been very lucky to be at someone’s house and their neighbors have been bringing by food to help feed the now 12 people in this house. We still haven’t been home but our neighborhood was opened for soft closure at 6 pm yesterday (can drive in but ID is required for access). My DH was able to walk a mile in to our house yesterday afternoon as we heard that maybe the gas company would be coming door to door to restart all gas and appliances in house. He was able to get gas on and the house warmed up from 34 degrees to 60 in a few hours. We plan to go home this morning. We have water but are under a boil notice for the foreseeable future. No cable/internet as the main fiber optic cable was next to/under a hotel that was completely destroyed. No ETA for working again. Also the AT&T tower was destroyed so anyone with AT&T has no service in area. It will be a little rough for awhile but we have to remind ourselves that we were lucky to have a house standing while 991 structures/homes were completely destroyed. They plan to start school Wed but there is a huge divide in the district of those wanting kids back for support and some normalcy while others want kids to have time to process outside of school. Out school is right next to us and had no damage but they are like the rest of us with water boil notice and no cable/internet.
We are taking it day by day at this point. I can’t really go back to work as I have no way to get internet access or reliable phone service (I work full time remote). I’ll try to keep you guys updated but it’s been exhausting being a social media junky to communicate to friends and family and respond to the outpouring of texts we have gotten. I also need to spend some time helping the 3 families in my circle that lost their houses and the few families we know from my DS school that are also homeless now. DS had at least 3 classmates that we know lose everything.
Thank you all for the support and prayers.
We are taking it day by day at this point. I can’t really go back to work as I have no way to get internet access or reliable phone service (I work full time remote). I’ll try to keep you guys updated but it’s been exhausting being a social media junky to communicate to friends and family and respond to the outpouring of texts we have gotten. I also need to spend some time helping the 3 families in my circle that lost their houses and the few families we know from my DS school that are also homeless now. DS had at least 3 classmates that we know lose everything.
Thank you all for the support and prayers.