Hello my friend! So glad you dropped by today. We are going to get right to this update. So, here goes:
Tested Positive Deaths Totally
Vaccinated
WV 2,090,402 128,760 (up 388) 2,236 (up 11) 149,889
Greenbrier Co. 42,507 1,660 (no change) 52 (no change)
Monroe Co. 17,845 789 (no change) 12 (no change)
Summers Co. 17,867 584 (up 2) 22 (no change)
PLEASE: Wear a mask when leaving home. Protect yourself, and others. Make sure your mask covers both your nose and mouth. Make sure your mask is right side out. Practice Social DIstancing of 6 to 8-ft. Practice frequent handwashing, even when at home. Keep those germs at bay. Keep your hands away from your nose, mouth and eyes. Use running water and soap for handwashing. If these are not available, you may use hand sanitizer. Do not congregate.
I know that most of you are experiencing this terrible wave of freezing temperatures, ice and snow storms. I realize that most, if not all, of our family in Texas is experiencing power outages. Hopefully you all were prepared for just such an event. Here in West Virginia we are also experiencing ice and snow. We did have a small power outage today, that lasted about 90 minutes. Our temperatures have been well below freezing the last week or so. We have electric heat in our home. Our home is just about 1,000 square feet. We do have a propane heater in our living room on the wall that puts out about 750-BTU of wonderful heat! This is used only when we do have a power outage. We have a 100-lb. propane tank, and it has only been filled in 2018. This is our 3rd winter and we just barely used any propane out of it. Today was the first time we had to light it. And we are so thankful for it. We shut out any unneccessary rooms (bedrooms, etc.) and opened bathrooms and kitchen so that the heat would keep any pipes from bursting. Works like a charm. We haven't winterized our home, but I am surely going to do so from now on! (Window covers, etc.) We also have a small propane, one burner stove that we can cook small things on if we need to. I have lived in an area in Georgia where it got really cold one winter. We lived in a mobile home then. It was below zero for 8-days. We saw four mobile homes burn to the ground, because people were turning their heat all the way up, and the home was not equipped to take such temperatures and the walls and flooring caught fire from the heat. We, instead, used heavy blankets and put those over windows and doorways. It meant we had virtually no daylight coming in, but we stayed warm and cozy with our heat no higher than 72-degrees F. I said all of this to say one thing: Play it safe. Keep yourself warm, but don't overheat your furnace to do so.
I wish you all a safe Thursday evening! And I'll see you all again tomorrow! And God Bless you everyone!
