Dim, But With Heat...

Back to our narrative, after a lapse of a few days. We are on into February, and the saga of our pregnancy continues. My wife is at 35 weeks now, and our little one will be arriving in the next little while. The preparations are as complete as possible.

We are in the school at 10:27 on a Friday night because the power has gone out again. It went down a day ago, and the prospects for restoration are murky in the near term future. This time, however, we have a generator supplying the two teacher housing buildings with enough power to run the heating systems in each of them. The tricky part is that we only have a single generator, for reasons that I do not understand. Our maintenance man is switching the connection from building to building every three hours. So we crank the heat up, and it cools off. So far, so good. However, it is warm-ish right now, in the low 20s.  Temperatures for the first part of next week are forecast in the single digits. Things might get trickier then.

Of course, we have to consider ourselves luckier than our principal's wife. The building in which she lives has no provision for generator backup, apparently. The temperature in there overnight was apparently in the upper 40's. She and her son are spending the night in the school.

None of us can run our refrigerators under the circumstances, although the frozen stuff was OK when we checked it this afternoon. We may have to stash food in totes and place them outside if this continues. We do have a convenient deep freeze just outside.

There is talk of a part that has been ordered and is hoped to arrive tomorrow. That remains to be seen. We brought a crock pot over here and put chicken soup in it. More meals will likely be consumed here in the next day or so. Waiting expectantly...for both baby and electricity...