Ready to Get Back to Work

Friday was another nice day, but we didn’t go anywhere or do anything special; laundry, cleaning, baking.  It was a quiet “day off”.  As predicted, the cold front came through on Friday night.  Saturday was cool, cloudy, and sprinkly but that was OK for a road trip to Nashville, where we met with our niece, Jamie, and her family.  We had blogged about our last visit here in April of last year.  Their daughter, Shay, has grown a lot since then.  She is all set for trick-or-treating (as a pumpkin):

The cold front intensified for Sunday, as the weather became even colder and wetter.  We packed up amid cold showers and moved back east to the town of Greeneville, where we will be working for the next 3 weeks.  If past projects are any indication, we might end each day a little too tired for daily postings here, but we will try to get updates online a couple of times per week. 

We noticed a lot of power company service trucks on the road yesterday, but didn’t think too much about it.  When we saw more today traveling north and east, the realization sunk in: the crews and equipment are on their way to repair the damage that is about to take place when Hurricane Sandy comes ashore in the next day or two.  There were many dozens of bucket trucks caravanning together. 

We have just come back to the motorhome from our first meeting with the other volunteers here, and are all set to get back to work in the morning, regardless of the weather.  The predicted snow in the Appalachians is expected to hit Pennsylvania and West Virginia pretty hard, and it is possible that some of that might reach this far south.  There are 9 team members with a potential of 2 more joining us later this week.  Janet is from Florida and is a “snow virgin”.  She’s never seen snow fall so this potential snow fall would be exciting for her.  We’re going to be doing inside work this week and hope it warms up soon!

By the way, Thursdays trivia was “ TVAs Norris Dam was named after who?” . . . 

{Answer: The dam was named in honor of Nebraska Senator George Norris (1861–1944), a longtime supporter of government-owned power in general, and supporter of TVA in particular}                          taken from Wikipedia