ROFL! As soon as I saw the title to this thread, I knew who had posted it. We were 'messaging' when you said you had to run to the basement with Cassie and I wondered for quite some time if you had survived...until the next message that is, LOL!

Um...2003, yeah that sounds a bit old. My folks have a lot of canned goods, etc., in their basement. It got me to thinking about the winter about to overcome us. Gosh, I shudder to think of not having electricity during a snow storm most especially. Been there! Done that! It was awful! The kind of snow storms where you can't even get out of your house type of thing, blizzards.

So, thank you for this reminder. I need to stock up on some things as well.

My problem is if the heat goes out. I'm not quite sure what to do about that. And if the electric goes out too, well...no space heaters.

I remember one of our horrible blizzards that snowed us iin when Cara was younger. I had a waterbed at the time and that was a lifesaver!!! It was heated of course and kept us nice and warm.

Hmmm, well I guess I could use the stove to heat that part of the house.

Well anyway, let's just hope that doesn't happen!

Today started out with very high winds and lots of rain. The winds were awful! When I woke up I thought for sure my alarm was wrong and that it was 2 am. DARK! Stormy! Windy! Wow, it was hard not to call in sick to work and crawl back in bed!

I'm glad you guys are safe. Frank was talking about this as well over on FB.