Tuesday, August 15, 2006
blackout
Summer storm yesteday afternoon, with hail and apparently strong wind gusts.
It took down a tree limb in a neighbor's yard that pulled down a power line and shorted out another line and the consequences were no leectricity for 94 homes.
So dinner was McDonald's take out and we sat with with windows opened and watched TV in one room by running it on a battery back up system Ken had devised (you learn to do things when you live in hurricane country.)
The power went back on before midnight - thank God - or I wouldhave been severely hampered by lack of a strong cup of coffee in the morning.
It took down a tree limb in a neighbor's yard that pulled down a power line and shorted out another line and the consequences were no leectricity for 94 homes.
So dinner was McDonald's take out and we sat with with windows opened and watched TV in one room by running it on a battery back up system Ken had devised (you learn to do things when you live in hurricane country.)
The power went back on before midnight - thank God - or I wouldhave been severely hampered by lack of a strong cup of coffee in the morning.
