Ice Storm in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood

There was a heck of an ice storm in Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Thank you for the good wishes. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood has just been returned electrical power back on. It feels like christmas to have the power back on after all this time. Its been six days. Mr. Trolley froze up on the rails and couldnt maintain adequate pressure.

It has been cold but we have been lucky. Mr. Roger’s bought propane and a propane heater at the corner store. Mr Owl and Mr Cat were cooking on the grill at the trolley station dock. There is also a stram flowing through Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Mr. Owl got buckets of water out of it and we heated that up. Mr. Cat also got buckets of water for the cattle and sheep. Mr. Owl and Mr. Cat really did a great job. Im so proud of them.

It felt pretty cold but the Owl and the Cat worked their tails off. They were out side doing things so the other inhabitants of Mr. Roger’s neighborhood could survive. A lot of animals abandoned their homes. Mr Rooster froze to death. That was the guidance on the power companies 800 number. “We advise you to seek other shelter”. I’m sure many animals are coming back to damaged homes. The Owl kept a candle going in the well house and underneath the house in the access space to ensure that the plumbing did not freeze. And it did not freeze. We were ready as soon as the power came back on.

It was so cold we had to pull start the trolley every day for the past few days to start it. I think the battery might have been damaged by the cold. But they learned how to do that to. Mr. Owl s my right hand man there. Mr Cat has been watering the pigs and going up on the ridge to break ice for the calves up there. There are places out side of Mr Roger’s neighborhood that may not get power for 30 to 60 days they say. It was so cool. The have apparently been crews coming in from other neighborhoods. I heard there were a thousand crews out around the McAlester Oklahoma area alone. A couple of days ago we made it out of here and were going into town for supplies. We passed a small army of utility and tree cutting vehicles heading up towards the ridge leading into the spring creek Terisita area.

It was also pretty neat last night when we met some tree cutting crews from asplundah getting to work on our property andwhere our cattle are grazing. The foreman for that group said to me “There are animals out here who arent going to get power for a couple of weeks……but Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood isn’t one of them. I think you will have power tonight or tomorrow”. Pretty good guess. I never would have believed it after seeing all the damage out here. It looks like a frozen hurricane hit this place.

Well anyway, thanks for thinking of us, Im really certain it helped. The smaller animals thought we were camping out in the living room,…. child hood can be kind of nice in its innocence, but it was stressful wondering how far we could stretch to take care of the family.

It was just too cold and treacherous. Many many tress froze and cracked and fell. It sounded like rifles and firworks being set off.