Since the last blog, a lot has happened to our team.  Last week we experienced something that most teams do not experience -an ice storm in Murray.  That is not even the bad thing.  We lost power and did not have it for three days.  We had no water or electricity.  The first day that the power went out, our team stayed at the RSEC (this is where we play our home games).  Surprisingly, the RSEC was warm and it had some lights.  I enjoyed staying at the RSEC because that meant we could shoot anytime we wanted. 

On the second day without power our team traveled to Martin, Tenn.  As we are traveling we could see all of the ice on the branches and power lines.  There were branches on the road that we were driving on so the roads were dangerous.  Our coaches and a couple of players on our team drove their vehicles and everybody rode with them.  Coach Cross was in the front and everybody was following him.  On the way to Martin, we almost had a collision with each other.  I think we were going a little too fast for the road conditions.  There was a branch on the road and it caused someone to put on their brakes really hard.  Then everybody else had to put their brakes on hard.  We had two cars that wound up in the ditch and we could not get them out.  Jana, who lives close to Martin, had some of her family come and pull the cars out of the ditch.  Thankfully no one was hurt in this accident.

After the little mishap, we continued on to Martin.  We were thankful to be staying at a place with heat and a place that had warm water.  Another reason we went to Martin was so that we could practice at UT-Martin.  We are in the middle of our conference season and had to practice somewhere.  We really appreciate UT-Martin letting us practice in their gym.  They did not have to do that, but they knew that we were in a bad situation and wanted to help us.

We take for granted a lot of things that we have (water, heat, lights).  This ice storm made me realize that I am really blessed and I really do have a lot of things.  This situation will make us stop and think about things before we start complaining about a little discomfort we may experience.  There are still some people in Calloway County and the surrounding counties that still do not have power.  Some people are not expected to get their power back until the end of February.  As you can see, our team really did not have it that bad compared to a lot of other people.