All winter we had not had a power-outage. So when the power went out suddenly on a calm late spring evening in May, it was quite a surprise. The winter before last we lost power several times, Once it was for 5 days, that was no fun. That was the closest thing to camping I ever want to get.Â
By the reaction from my husband and my mother-in-law to this little bleep in life, you would have thought the end of the earth was about to take place. NO TV???? How will I READ????
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The neighbor called and informed me that she had called the electric company and a recording said they were aware of our outage and that the estimated time for power to return would be about 3 hours. HHCTB?
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I really was not to worried because I knew that the other side of town was without power for 8 hours the night before. Burned out transformer, whatever that means.
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After gathering and lighting oil lamps and candles and getting extra batteries out, my husband asked if my laptop was charged up. No problem, he was all set for a night of games of solitaire.
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I went to bed. Before I drifted off to sleep in total darkness I had to chuckle to myself about how frantic those 2 were about not having power. After all, 3 hours is nothing, especially when your sleeping.
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Throughout the night I could hear generators running. as night wore on I could hear more generators starting up in the distance. I awoke at about 4:30 to let the dogs out and put on the coffee. Then it HIT ME!! NO COFFEE???  Worse yet, No internet!!!
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My routine is to put on the coffee feed the critters and when the coffee is done I sit at my computer to see what happened while I was sleeping. I return emails and Skype’s. This morning was a bit different. I stumbled over the critters and fumbled in the garage for the camp stove to heat water.
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My neighbor called to once again update me on the situation, “no crew had been dispatched to our area yet. There were 80 homes still without power and we were 2 of them. I am not looking forward to the 2 grouches waking and sharing that news with them.
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In the mean time I am going back to the garage to heat more water for another cup of instance coffee. At the moment I have lemons I am going to make some lemonade.
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