Since I’ve been living in this area, we’ve had at least two years in a row of drought during the summers. Winter of 2008/2009 we had a major ice storm, and just a few miles north of us, ice wreaked devastation all over Kentucky where residents were without water or power for weeks. Volunteers from the electric company in Nashville went up to try and help them. People who had worked in New Orleans after Katrina commented that it was worse than Katrina. Electric poles were snapped like twigs. I, myself, got off easy. Pregnant, with a deployed husband, I only had to spend one cold, boring night without power.
