A Missouri Ice Storm 2007

Praise God for Electricity!!!! Ok this has been one of the craziest weeks of my entire life!!! It all started Friday night when the storm rolled into the Southwest Missouri area. We got ice Friday night and lost power for the night but it came back on Saturday morning. We got more ice starting Saturday night and at about 10:00 pm our power went out again. This time it stayed out.

We got more ice Sunday and some very cold temperatures the next few days. We have not had power until today!!! I am praying for the folks who live in the rural area's who are still without power and have no reassurance of when power will be restored. They are saying it could take weeks!

At one point all of (the county I live in) was out of power. 100% of us!!! This has been such a damaging wide spread storm. There's been numerous deaths from people miss using propane heaters in their home and getting carbon monoxide poisoning.

We have had to throw out all of the food that spoiled in our refrigerator that we didn't eat. We have been staying with family who has a generator so we weren't home the past week. At one point we had to wait in line at a gas station in another town to get gasoline for the generator. Every station in town was closed since there was no power in the entire town for over 4 days.

I have taken a ton of pictures over the last week of the damage the ice has done and some beautiful scenery pictures. We are bracing for another storm coming our direction this weekend. They are saying we could get up to 8 inches of snow but please no ice!!!

I am so thankful God sent the ice and took our power away for this last week! I have never been more thankful for the home and family I have. God has to show us how blessed we are sometimes by taking away things we take for granted.