DC area -- how are you coping?

greenwitch
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:31:28 +0000

We lost power Friday evening and somehow, miraculously, it came back on about 24 hours later. Given PEPCO’s past history, I thought it would be 3 days at least. Our neighborhood was just lucky to not get the high winds that other places got.

However, there are still people without power, and there were major intersections that didn’t get power back until yesterday. Cops out there, all day and night, trying to restore order and not get killed.

DC had fireworks, but all the other smaller displays around here were cancelled because they didn’t want to pull police and firefighters away from more necessary duties.

I was helping D1 move from one apartment to the other in the eastern panhandle of WV and luckily, both her apartments had power so we stayed over in one Saturday night. D2’s apartment in Baltimore never lost power either. It’s good to have friends and family close by to shelter with if you need to! We offered several friends a place to stay at our house after our power came back on.

We have dogs too so I didn’t think we could stay easily at any hotel. I read a list of open hotels and none of them would take pets and the ones they listed as pet friendly would only take service dogs. Didn’t anyone learn anything from Hurricane Katrina? People lost their lives because they wouldn’t leave their pets behind. It’s good to know that Hilton hotels will take them. I know that all Loews hotels are pet friendly (and they’re usually quite fancy) and La Quinta is too.