Keeping it warm

I bet I wasn't the only person in the St. Louis area to sleep in my clothes last night. But I was more comfortable than the ones in shelters, warmer than the ones in cold houses.

I bet I wasn't the only person to sleep in two locations, either. I imagine a lot of kids had the experience of going to sleep with extra blankets in their beds, only to be moved to a warmer location when their parents had done all they could for the house.

Driving along the block that our old house is on, a stranger could guess which households have children. Those are the ones that don't have cars in front of them. It looked to me like most people without children stayed in their houses all night, but all the families found someplace warmer.

We could see the progress of the electric company with each trip in the dark--oh, this block has power, now! But not our old neighborhood, yet.

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