[Damies]

I am in loads of pain from chipping away at 4-6 inch deep ice with a pick axe. My sister's place had solid ice covering her back porch and she has water coming in her wall by her porch, oddly by the side the ice/water was not pooling at. There was mold on the back of her bookshelf that was in the wet area, mold under the carpet, general water damage to the wall. I also shoveled as much snow as possible away from her house on the side where the leaky wall is to prevent it melting and running towards the wall. Then when I got home I spread salt on my driveway and was shoveling more ice off my own driveway when a substation in the next town over effectively blew up and cut power to 3 towns including mine. So I drove to my other sister's to give a light to my mom who was baby sitting at my that house. 45 minutes later the power was back on and we came home and I worked on our driveway again. So I cleared 6 feet by maybe 8 feet of 2inch deep ice off my driveway. And now it is 2:30am and I am exhausted.