The other adventure is that our electricity went out three different times. Try cooking without having water and electricity. The good news is that we went out for dinner, one of the nights! Funny though because even the restaurants had their electricity go out right when we got our food. When we came home we couldn't get in through the garage so we had to go in through the back door. We went inside and I knew exactly where the flashlights were and I knew where the candles were. I could even find them in the dark with no lights. We even had extra batteries, just in case we ran out.
The cool thing about this experience is that I did listen to a prompting to get some bottled water from Costco a couple of weeks before. Did I know that the water and electricity was going to go out? No, but I do know that God watches out for us and we just have to make sure we are listening to those promptings.
Seriously just try going one day without water. You will be surprised how much water you use. Even washing your hands. Getting water for your animals or even washing off your dishes. You don't think of all of the things you use it for unless you don't have it. The other crazy thing about this experience was that we had a small flood. A pipe burst on my birthday. Happy Birthday to me. I was watching my friends little girl and when we were dropping her off I felt like I should go back home to change. Well, little did I know when I walked in through the garage I saw water coming out of the laundry room door into the garage. I opened the door and yep, there it was water all over. I quickly reached around to the washing machine to shut off those valves but when the water kept coming I knew I had to call Aaron to come back to help me. We walked around the house and there was a huge puddle of water outside surrounding the house and running along the sidewalk. There was a hole where the brick and siding meet and there was the water gushing out. He went back to the front yard and shut off the main water to the house. Needless to say El Paso is now making stricter laws for insulating plumbing fixtures that are on outside walls. The next day the plumber came out and fixed the pipe. So Saturday afternoon I was able to do laundry and dishes for the first time in a week. Yea for water! Yea for fixed pipes! Yea for electricity.
I do want to pass on some information that people might think helpful for emergency purposes.
#1 Have some cash on hand that is small in bills (ie ones, fives and tens). The reason being if you do need to go to the store you have cash and they probably won't be able to get you change.
#2 Get a large bottle or a few bottles of hand sanitizer. The reason why I suggest this is because that way you don't have to use drinking water to wash your hands when you can sanitize them.
#3 Use paper products instead of your regular ones. That way you can save more water. Also don't forget utensils and cups.
#4 If is yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down. Self explanatory. We had to use our neighbors five gallon bucket because he had water.
#5 French baths are better than no bath!
#6 Eat like you are camping. Cereal is good no electricity and no water needed.
I am sure there are more things that I learned but those are the items that I can think of right now.
Something else that was fun to see is that we actually had use for our fireplace and the dogs have never culled up that close before. So cute! Even the girls got cuddly cozy.
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