Don't get me wrong here. I love my family, and I love my cousins...they just get on my nerves after a certain point--especially when I haven't had enough sleep. Let's backtrack here so the readers can understand why I'm tossing words down to vent about this, which is a better alternative to getting annoyed.
Thursday night, power for my town (a small town in farmland), and nearly 9 other surrounding towns went out. We had a heavy ice storm and powerlines were dropping like rain, transformers catching on fire, trees as well. It was a hectic night to be a fireman, a medic, or a police officer trying to ensure everyone is safe. All of this in single digit weather, as it is in fact winter.
My house runs nearly all on electricity. The furnace is gas, but the blower is electric. The stove is electric start on the oven and the stove, and you can't even turn on the oven without electricity because of it's design (you control the temperature and pumping gas OUT with buttons on the back that feed into the display). Needless to say, the refrigerators were electric. Therefore, our house was without heat, ability to cook food, or even hot water (our water heater is electric too) in 8 degree weather. This was not only uncomfortable (least of my gripes) it was unhealthy, as it quickly got cold by midday Friday.
As we packed things up to head to a family member's apartment (my uncle), we were informed that power would be out for 3-5 days at LEAST. Note how close to Christmas this is. And that half of my town is elderly, they can't exactly survive well in this weather. The power company really dropped the ball on the safety of their customers in cold weather. But we're not at home, my mom and I (I'm staying with her until I get into Basic) are at my uncle's, babysitting his three kids. My cousins.
I love these kids, don't get me wrong. But with all the cold, I've been very sick. And very tired. I slept maybe two hours just last night from waking up with coughing fits, and have one hell of a dry/sore throat. My patience is a little more limited than it should be for dealing with a 14, 11, and 7 year old. Boy, boy, and girl. They aren't bad kids, just a test of patience if you don't have authority over them. I'm just a cousin, so when they start fighting, the best I can do is yell at them to cut it out, and step in the middle of the arguments. Their dad, they'd stop cold.
Christmas is coming on top of it all, and we can't go home because there's no heat in that house, and it's currently 3 degrees. This is shaping up to be a lovely year, don't you think?
Thiiis is the reason I needed to spill a little rant. I apologize if this seems trite, or out of place, but I just needed to vent. I thank you for your time, keep moving to your rhythm! Let the music flow through you.
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