Kentucky State of Emergency

Well, I thought I would give you all an update on what's going on with Ike in the great state of Kentucky. Yesterday afternoon we started getting some pretty high winds (reached up to over 70 mph). One person was killed and many were injured, there were several fires, trees knocked over on cars and houses, and now 250,00 people in the Louisville area without power! Yes, we are one of those lucky homes without power, and I just found out that it could stay that way for up to 14 DAYS!!! AHHHH!!! Remember all of the counsel about food storage and being prepared? Well, I'm wishing I had followed it, because we own one small flashlight, all the food in our fridge is ruined, and we may be living off of peanut butter sandwiches for a while...The best of all is that my mom's long-awaited visit is in three days!!! :( I have been counting down the days until she gets here, and now she is going to have to camp with us and take cold showers. I feel so bad, I wish she could switch her flights, but her tickets on non-transferable, so she is going to come camp at our apartment for a few days. Hopefully by the time we get to Wal-mart tonight all of the coolers, ice, flashlights, batteries, )and whatever else we should have had but don't) won't be all sold out. I mean, there are only 250,000 of us without power, what are the chances that everyone was as unprepared as we were?