Snowed-in On Gabriola Island

Today the road into our house on the Island looks so much like the road into our home in Bragg Creek.  The difference is that the temperature here on the Island remains above 0 degrees.  Friends in Calgary have emailed me telling me that it is currently -38 with a wind chill on top of that.

Our power went off at 8:00 AM and we are very lucky that we have a wood stove that puts out a lot of heat.  Hopefully it won't be out that long - but they say that when the power goes out on this island it tends to take awhile to get it back on.

We light up our wood stove and put the matches and candles so that we can find them when it gets dark.  We organize the battery operated radio and find the head lamp so that we can read if the power stays off.  George brings in extra wood and chops more kindling, too.  He fills a 5 gallon pail so that we will have water to flush down the toilets sparingly.  The one thing we missed doing is putting the car out closer to the road.  We just didn't think the snow would come down like it did.

Lucky for us that I had made a big pot of curried chicken and rice the night before.  We put the left overs in a pan on top of the wood stove for our supper.  Kinda like camping out.