It all Ended, When the Freeze Began

Into the Storm

By the time I woke up the next morning, the situation was not looking any better. Instead of spending my usual 2 hours of "early" morning peace on either Netflix or Disney+, I flicked through the local news as well as the weather channel. The storm was due to hit that night. Last-minute preparations anyone? Once my parents came downstairs, I updated them on the storm. We decided to go to Home Depot and Lowes after breakfast to see if there was anything we could buy to protect our plants and the outer pipes. Home Depot had these strange covers for the outside faucets/hoses. The outside was a kind of reddish-brown plastic and a rectangular prism, but heavily rectangular. On the inside there was styrofoam, probably to retain heat, and around the open end, there was just foam. At the top of the thing, there was a little rubber string with a bit of a loop so you could hook it onto the hose faucet and pull it tight so it would stay on the wall. We bought a couple of those and then found some tarps to place over our plants. Well, really it was just our mini-hedge we put the two tarps, that we were able to buy, on. I had a fun time hacking away at some stray bricks with a pickaxe (that we bought after hurricane Harvey so we could tear down the walls) to make smaller ones we could hold the tarps down with. The rest of the plants we just covered with bigger trash bags and used packing tape to secure them.

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Hey guys, I wanted to get the first paragraph out for y'all today, and I hope that by next Sunday I'll have the entire chapter completed. I hope you've been enjoying my story so far! Thanks for reading! (Note from 2/28/21)