Lights Out
Around 3:30 this morning the house went silent, the sort of abrupt silence that only happens when the power goes out. After determining that it was not just our place but the whole neighborhood, I cranked up the 10 hour brown noise file on my phone and went back to sleep. It was pretty fitful sleep but I got a few Zs.
As it happens, some chick “fell asleep” on a nearby road and crashed into a pole. Local news had a picture….
Maybe she really fell asleep, maybe she was just hammered. We get lots of accidents out this way, many involving alcohol, because the sideroads are so quiet that people drive like maniacs.
Life goes on although my desktop and the internet were out until almost 2 PM. On the bright side, we did get a chance to try out the generator on the house line. If you recall we had a power outage in July of last year (see: Prepper Fail) and it took us a long time to figure out why our brand new generator that we never tested wasn’t starting. After that we made sure everything was up to snuff and bought a line to hook the generator into the house. Fired it up this morning and we had running water again and the fridge was working. Some stuff doesn’t run off of that box, I don’t really understand it, but that meant no stove which wasn’t the end of the world. I probably could have run my computer but it is an expensive rig so I figured better to just leave it off until the line crews got the power running again. Thus my absence so far today.
Maybe more posting tonight, more likely not until tomorrow, but I am glad to see we learned some lessons from last July and this power outage went a lot smoother.