from O Town to MoTown

HURRICANE SANDY! Quarantined to our apartment--we played Clue by candlelight for 2 days. 

This particular version of Clue has mirrors and special spyglasses you decode clues from!

THE AFTERMATH: LOTS of cars did this, and they waited in those lines for HOURS.

LOTS of trees did this.

Dearest Family!

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond! Goodness knows! I don't have much time, the library people are quite strict with only being on 30 minutes. 

Firstly, everyone has been without power. Secondly, when power did return, the libraries were flooded with folks trying to use the interweb. Thirdly, we can't drive our car to another library because all the gas is gone. Our town is the only one with power for miles around and some of the only gas stations that work, so everyone came here, waited for hours in line to get gas, and then filled up bucket after bucket with gas. People even walked to the gas station and stood in human lines to wait for gas. We only have a small bit left, and we're saving it for an emergency. So we are now walking everywhere! Which is quite enjoyable and gives us time to talk to lots of people on the street. But we had to cancel all our appointments because they're too far for us to walk to. 

Our town is pretty much fine, very few service opportunities actually. But Paterson is totally flooded and apparently Atlantic City has been wiped clean! We've also seen pictures of sharks swimming down flooded freeways! Woof! 

We were only out of power a few days, and we were told to stay indoors for the storm for two and a half days. We tried to eat all our spoilable fridge food, which included a lot of milk. We each drank a half gallon in one sitting, then felt very sick. Then we played boardgames that a member lent us for the storm. We played Clue for about 3 hours.

Well, I love you and I'll let you know more later! Oh, and Moim, I did get your package and it was so amazing! Those tights were depserately needed! Thank you!

Sister Meester