Last Sunday afternoon we got hit by Hurricane Ike! Yes, we live in Ohio and we still got hit by level one hurricane winds. It was pretty scary. We lost about 6 trees which created a huge mess, but, thankfully, no damage to our home. We also lost power and this became the biggest challenge from the storm. At first we weren't too worried as normally, the power is not off for very long. But as the hours went by and the reports came in saying we might be without power for a week or more, we decided we needed to come up with some plan for keeping our food unspoiled.I took the ice that was in the freezer and dumped it in a cooler and loaded the cooler with as much food from the fridge as I could. Luckily, my mom's power came back on rather quickly, so I bagged up more food and took it to my mom's house to store. Our next problem was the deep freeze in the basement. My inlaws were also without power and were able to get their 35 year old generator to work, so we took turns keeping our freezers cold with that little old generator.
We really did pretty well throughout week. We used candles for light and I have decided that I would like to purchase a few oil lamps for the next time. We also need to buy a good sized generator to hook up to the house so we won't be scrambling the next time we lose power. It really was a learning experience for us, as to how we need to better prepare ourselves.
