Happy Valentines Day

We don't celebrate Valentines Day.  We celebrate every day.  Cec wants to go to Purdy's and buy me chocolate.  I told him to wait until tomorrow when they are on sale and I'll enjoy them more.  My florist friend and I would go to the floral wholesalers and watch the price of roses double and triple!  After Valentines Day one year we got one dozen red roses for $1.00!  It was a Friday, we were at lunch and he was closing at 2 PM.  We bought flowers for all the girls in the office and no one believed us when we told them what we paid! 

This post is a lot later than usual.  Last night just after six we heard sirens.  We hear a lot of sirens and unless they come in our complex we ignore them.   At 6:48 Richard sent me a text to say there was a bad car accident and Highway 10 was closed eastbound.  Traffic around here was nightmare.  At 8:32 our power went off.  We turned on the laptop and found some movies we'd loaded on for our flight to Europe!  We watched Frozen which I'd never seen before.  We enjoyed it!  At 11:00 power was still off so we went for a walk!

That's King of Floors in the background.  I texted the picture to Brad.  The store looked fine.  I was thinking of Smokey the cat on the top floor.  I'm sure she was okay.  The BC Hydro Power Outage website said power would be restored by 5:30 am.   At 2:15 AM our house alarm was making a weird sound so I turned it off and went back to sleep.  We woke up at 7;15 and still no power.  I went out and took this picture:

The power trucks moved further west and Hwy 10 was open to one lane.

I continued on to Starbucks and bought our breakfast.  Our power came back on at 8:00!  I was happy my phone and laptop were fully charged.  I do have a power bank if I needed it.  I can't believe how much we rely on electricity.  That's was a long outage.  I haven't heard what happened with the car accident.  Obviously it hit a power pole. 

Everything is charging, the dishwasher and clothes washer are both on.  What would we do if we had a major earthquake?