Many people have asked how I fared in the recent hurricane turned "super storm". It was quite uneventful. I have tons of dry food and cooked a whole bunch of muffins in prep for loosing power which I assumed was inevitable. I was blessed to not loose power at all. The storm was pretty not exciting for me, except for my one sincere moment of stupidity....
Sunday night as it was starting to rain, I decided to curl up in a blanket and go sit out on my balcony. I kind of love being wrapped up in a blanket in the "cold" and I have a fabulous rocking chair out there. So I went out and sat. Unfortunately, instead of pulling the screen door shut behind me, I very diligently pulled the glass door shut and the bar was not fully secured in it's "up" position. Thus, it decided to fall down. And when I turned to go inside, I found myself very thoroughly locked out.
While I have shared this story with a number of people and they have come up with smarter plans than mine, I thought all I could think and ended up carrying out a plan that worked perfectly well. While I considered walking down to the strip mall a mile or so away, I wasn't sure how much help I would receive. Plus I didn't have shoes, or socks. I didn't have my phone, my ipod, or my wallet. So no money, no information but what my little brain contains. No nothin.
I started thinking of friends that could help. Unfortunately, they don't live close. And...I don't know where anyone in my ward (my church congregation) lives except for 1 or 2 families. So...I set out and walked the 2.5 miles to my bishop's house and very sheepishly knocked on their door and asked for help. We ended up finding the emergency maintenance number and had them come and let me in the house. Awesome. Let me tell you how brilliant I felt that night. I decided that I would stay indoors for the rest of the storm. And so I did. Superstorm Sandy was primarily watching the TV show "Once Upon a Time" for me. Super exciting.
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