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December 20, 2006
worried, checked the weather, whew!
Well, my to do list is doing. It's going, but I'm not sure where.
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Just got a call from Sister. She and BiL are moving to The Homeland (Colorado) right now and we've been praying like crazy for them! She called from East Central Kansas with the report that 1) I70 is closed in Colby (Far West Kansas) and 2) they are closing I70 at Salina at 6pm local time. That's in about 2 hours. Soooo, they are getting a motel room. Because it's not good to drive on an interstate during a blizzard/ice storm, especially when the gates are across the onramps. (Oh, Southerners, you may not know this, but the interstates out West [and probably up North, too...can I get a shout out Cardona? where they have truly inclement weather come equipped with gates that can close across the interstate onramps. Because snow and ice severely lower the coefficient of friction and kaPOW you're in the gutter!)
Soooo they're trying to get a room. All the motel rooms are taken in Hays, so Mom is trying to find them the best deal elsewhere. I, meanwhile, called MotherinLaw. One option was for Sister and BiL to stay with them, but now the roads will be closed so there. I called Mother in Law to tell her my family was not going to come after all, but the answering machine was off. Which leads me to the next blurb.
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Here's the next blurb. Apparently they have a brownout in Tiny Kansas Town. Very very little power. No heat, no light, but since they live in town, they have water. (Country houses have electric water pumps. That's a problem for things like handwashing and flushing during a power outage.) But they have no power. Poor them!
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Next blurb. Our plan is to drive to Tiny Kansas Town tomorrow then on to Colorado on Friday, coming back to Tiny Kansas Town Sunday evening. But all this talk of weather makes me nervous. However, thanks to The Weather Channel, all looks clear and non-frozen for the hours we project driving north then west.
Hooray.
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I have never seen gates on the interstate in Michigan. Michigan people are as tough as nails, I'm learning. They'll drive through anything even if they're told not to.
Posted by: Carrie at December 28, 2006 05:37 PM