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Hello, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast.

I'm Ali Fallon. I'm your host and I am recording this week's

episode from a hotel room unexpectedly. Crazier things have happened in the world. I was in the middle of my first attempt at this

recording yesterday, trying to record a day early because I had been told and I knew that there was a potential that maybe some power outages were coming to us in Nashville. We got a bunch of winter weather, a lot of ice. The ice is too heavy for the trees, too heavy for the power lines. So we kind of knew this was coming. So Sunday morning, I was like, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and sit down and record this episode a little bit earlier than I normally do to make sure that I get out what, you know, what I need to say and get the recording done before we potentially lose

power. And I was 20 minutes into recording the episode when the power cut out. So that is that.

You know, it is what it is. And we stayed in our house for a few hours after the power went out and then

realized pretty quickly that this was probably going to be a long stay without power. NES, Nashville Electric Service is saying

it's going to be three to seven days before we get power back. So we escaped in the icy tundra to a hotel

in the area. I'm so grateful to be here. I'm so grateful to be warm. I grabbed my podcast gear and brought it with me so that I could record this episode if I caught a minute in the hotel room. And here I am. I'm sitting in a beautiful hotel room, 14 stories above the city of Nashville, looking out over the snow and the ice. So grateful to be warm. I'm so grateful to be here. This hotel is packed with families from the Nashville area who are all without power. The last I checked, it was like 200,000 customers without power, but I think that number is a lot bigger now. That was yesterday morning when I checked. So I don't know what the total number is, but I know that NES is working really hard to get everybody's power back on. And the temperatures are just so frigid out there that a lot of people are stuck in their homes.

The ice on the streets is bad, but worse than the ice on the streets are the trees that have cracked and broken and tree branches and limbs have fallen across the roads.

There are power lines down driving here.

I mean, if it hadn't been for my husband, there's no way I would have made it to our destination, just because I wouldn't have had the guts to drive, you know, the places that he drove. And at one point, there was literally a tree down across the street. And he just drove right through it. I mean, I wish I could show you the video. I took video of it happening because I was so much in shock, but he drives a big truck that did really well

on the roads. But no matter how well your car is doing on these icy roads, I mean, there's just

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