Haha! okay you guys want to hear a story? well I don't really care if you don't want to hear it, I'm telling it anyways...
It was the 12th of November, when the ghastly white stuff started falling from the sky which started a huge problem. That Night of the 12th, Christie McManaman and her mother had to drive to her high school so she could perform with the senior high band and listen to the UPEI symphonic band play, but what happens when we get there? the power goes out, and we go on generator power. That lasts for our senior band performance, the Choir Performance, and two of the UPEI peices, and then the headmaster tells us we have to leave before it gets out of hand and the generator blows. So everyone has to leave. It took me and my mother 35 minutes on a regular 10 minute drive. We get home, I go to bed...about 4 in the morning, in halifax, 4 of the power towers for the Valley fall down because of the weight of the snow and wind. I wake up it was so quiet, I try to turn on my speakers, nothing happens, I try to turn on the light, nothing happens, I didn't beleieve that the power was out, I try every light in the house, yeap, the powers out..."shit". Its cold as fuck and I don't have my discman here ... so Sarah and I sit in the living room for a while and we hear the new that 4 towers were knocked out from the storm.. so we were listening to random tapes we could find, then I got bored and went to my friends house, way warmer, still no heat or water, just a smaler space and more candles. we turned on the BBQ adn heated some cans and had soup that night, then I had a nice cold walkl home...get inside "holy fuck!" it was like 12 C when I got in there, with all the candles we could find and we were sitting in the same room. We played a trump game called wist that Sarah taught us, we played it for hours trying to pass the time, so by 8 o'clock I want to go to bed, but dad said it was too early so they keep me up till 10 playing that damn wist game. then I threw down my cards and said, "why the hell am I still up, I wanted to go to bed two hours ago!!" okay, so I go to bed and I wake up the next morning being able to see my breath and not being able to shower damn does that ever suck. okay, so we get up Sarah and I play Rummi. than we talk about how dirty we are and the rest, and when mom came out we asked her where dad went, he travelled to the other ed of the Valley for gas, no that I complained, he brought back MacDonalds...mmm warm food, fattty, but its food, and its warm. Now we've been melting snow for toilets and tea. the best part was I found countdown to extintion, it was our saviour for the days, atleast we had some music, we're compleatly greased up, so we heat up some water and I wash my hair, adn then sarah goes outside with a bar of soap and washes her hair in the snow ( pictures will come later ). so then its about 10C in my house, I have 4 layers of clothes on and about 6 soccer socks on...and I was freezing. and then my friend from downtown Brandon calls and tells up he has a woodstove and water, so he has all the luxurys except power, so me, my friend and sarah pile into a plow and hurry over to his house and warm up, we hang out there, have a snow fight, walk around, and go in and warm up again before we have to leave. we get back, make food, and play cards for hours, my dad made a guess that the power should be on about 7 at night, he was pretty close, it came on about 9 o'clock, and when I heard it come on me and sarah kinda jumped for joy and we sat quiet for about ten minutes waiting for it to shut back off, but it never did, and now we are warm and happy.
HOW I LOVE POWER!