If it’s Monday, it means we have no electricity. Last Monday we lost power for something like 30 hours. We’ve shot past that now with the storms over the weekend. We made it through Friday’s storm with only a flicker but Saturday’s storm included a tornado not far from here and based on what the wind looked like, I think we were the lucky recipients of a storm that was just a wee bit too lazy to form into a funnel. Some trees are snapped off or over, but luckily nothing really in our immediate yard.
I told the better-half that I would publicly state that sometimes it is good to have your MIL’s sh*t in the shed. Because we have an old window unit that belonged to his mother and we’re using in the downstairs so we don’t run like raving lunatics into the street because we’ve become completely addled by the heat.
The little window unit that could:
The stairwell sure looks funny, but it was the best idea we had to keep the majority of the heat upstairs and let the cats get to the litterbox. The high temp upstairs yesterday was 86.
Our lighting supplies and Lucy added her favorite item to the pile:
Still life of gas containers and the cord that runs out to the generator:
We are not cruel masters of the generator and offer it some shade as it labors all day, every day for days and days and days (OK, a bit of insanity is setting in):
Speaking of insanity, I don’t know how many more days I can check the Dominion Power work location list and not see any part of our area on the list. Dude! There’s a snapped off pole near our house and there are tons of people back here that just give each other the “look” at the gas pump and then get back into their vehicles and schlep their expensive gas back to feed their generators so they don’t lose their refrigerators/freezers. Give us a little hope already and act like you give a sh*t about HanCo.
I was downtown Frederick that night and casually mentioned “hey look, it’s raining”. Didn’t give it another thought until the next day when I heard about all the outages. So sorry you were out for so long. I think I’ve been living in a bubble of oblivion and need to get back to real life.
I was at the mammogram place the other day and the tech was telling me she had the same reaction as you only she lives across town. She had no idea the power was out until she got to work and had to repower up all the equipment (the medical office building landlord is somewhat lacking, apparently).