Back To The Basics
Talk about a refresher course in gratitude. We had a terrible storm that went through on Friday afternoon, with extremely high winds. It knocked down several of those big high tension power lines on the road I live on, and when those went down, it pulled down about a mile and a 1/2 of high voltage powerlines. The power company said it could be days before power would be restored. My youngest daughter was graduating on that Sunday, and a big party was planned. All those plans were now in question--it was, of course, a tremendous disappointment for her. We had no power. No water. No heat and air. No WIFI. No TV. Getting in and out was challenging because of the downed lines and power trucks. But . . . Those power poles could have fallen on our house. They didn't. The family was safe. The weather was beautiful after that storm passed. We didn't need heat or air. We had 15 power trucks and about 50 guys working around the clock to fix it. Our ...
