Share your experience: Hello everyone,

The past 9 days we were out of school in some capacity, mainly due to the bad weather we just experience. I have been in Texas since 1989 and this by far is the worst that I experienced since becoming a Texan. My family and I had lights and water, but we did lose our WIFI, internet, TV and phone services for 4 days. Even with heat it was extremely cold that we basically slept fully dressed trying to stay warm, concerning the water and the fear we would lose it we filled up one of our bath tubs to have water in the event we lost water, we also had two large pots of water that we boiled just to be on the safe side. On top of that we had 2 family members were away from home attending college one in the Missouri were the weather went as low as minus 4 degrees with the wind chill of a -12 degrees and one son attending college in Texas and he experienced the same weather that we had. We took in a family friend who had no lights or water for a few days until he regained them back. The last experience was my wife's mom losing power and water in the Houston area and she lives by herself and we were really concern due to her having some health concern, we were a nervous wreck wanting to be there but couldn't because of the weather. Thankfully we all survived and everything is some what back to normal.

Your assignment for the week: Share your experience and share how it made you feel. Share if you'll lost power, water if you had to boil water. Did you have to go stay with family else were? Did you stayed in a hotel? I hope everyone is well now.