Well, not stormy. But the last night of my family's visit ended very abruptly. After a nice relaxing day of driving and shopping, we settled down at the Baker Bowling Center to enjoy a nice pizza dinner. Just before ordering, the power went out in the building. This was about 7pm. People looked outside, and the whole town was out. We called Plevna, and Plevna was out. We decided to wait and see what happened. About 30 mintues later, the power still hadn't even flickered, and it was starting to get very cold.
They decided to drive up to Wibaux, to get gas, and then make their way across North Dakota one day early. We had no way of knowing if the power was going to be out for 2 hours, or three days. We followed them in our car up North to the gas station at Wibaux where we said our chilly good-byes (it was 10 degrees last night).
We talked through our options if the house was frozen solid back in Plevna. Our choices were limited: get in the bedroom with the dogs and cats, crawl under all the blankets we own, and run the taps a little to keep the pipes from freezing. Amazingly, when we got into Baker, 1/2 the city was already lit up! The side with the hotel and the hospital was still out, so optimism was NOT high for the Plevna house.
But- things were fine! We ate leftovers and slept until 11am. Sad to see my folks go, glad they're home safe, and looking forward to an entire weekend together.
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