Just a Little Rant

So we had a massive windstorm here in the Pacific Northwest last Wednesday December 17th. We have been with out power since Wednesday morning and now it's not estimated to be repaired till Christmas Eve or later. Our grocery stores are critically low of drinking water, and there is no FEMA or Red Cross in sight. There is a high population of seniors in our area on fixed incomes with only a single source of heat which only works with power. It is currently 27°F here and dropping. But there is no local government help for those people. My family has a generator to power our fridge, and a few other things in the house, we have wood heat that is not dependant on the power grid, we are low on water and will have to figure something else out tomorrow. And we're looking at another 4 days without power.

I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR! I am grateful for the work crews out in the elements at all hours working to restore our power. I am in no way saying they are not working hard or fast enough. They are doing their very best and it's greatly appreciated. This is more in regards to the lack of government help to get those in dire situations through the outage around here.

Here is a short video I took of the storm when it first started to arrive in my corner or Idaho Wednesday morning.