RIP Sooby

As if not having electricity for 2 nights and 2 days wasn't enough, just as it was coming back on, Rob was in a three car pile-up Thursday evening on his way home from work. Some idiot ran out of gas in a Jeep, and was sitting in the middle of the road with no four-ways or lights of any kind. Rob smacked in to the corner of the Jeep, and some lady piled in right behind him. Sooby, (our loving, steadfast, tank Subaru) has probably had her last drive. The coroner (insurance adjuster) hasn't called her time of death yet, but she's sitting at the morgue (autoshop) until he can make it here on Tuesday. Here's a pic.

Rob is okay. He's in a lot of pain, but he was given some serious Motrin and a "six-pack" of tylenol/codeine. Given that Sooby was practically a classic, she didn't have airbags, so he bit the steering wheel pretty hard. I'm sooooo glad he's okay.
Unfortunately, Sooby was our only vehicle. So, we're driving a rental, courtesy of the insurance company, for now. It's hard to say what our next move is. We had the minimum full-coverage insurance, and we only had that much because it's required to rent cars, which we did often for road trips down south. We have to wait and see how much damage was done to the Jeep first. Whatevers left will go toward replacing Sooby.
For those of you guys down south that weren't aware, we had a serious ice-storm Tuesday evening. That's why we had no power for two nights and two days. It was rough. Josie suffered greatly, as you can see here.

Yes, that's right, she's watching a battery operated DVD player. We have the DVD player for the aforementioned road trips down south (thank goodness for those, or we'd be in a lot of trouble, huh?) We were able to heat the house with our gas stove, and we still had hot water because of our gas water heater, so it really wasn't that bad. There were many in our area that just gave up and went to hotels for a few days. Not us. Nope. We're pioneers. Ha, ha.