Before anyone asks, yes, I did offer to bring my mom back to stay at my house until her power came back on, but she said no. She said she had a cold and didn’t want to give it to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Power Outage
When I lived in Audubon all of the power lines in my neighborhood were underground. Did that prevent power outages? No, unfortunately, because eventually my power lines would connect to lines that were above ground, thus subject to the rain,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I won’t go into the lengthy debate of whether we should still do this, whether we should continue to turn clocks back each fall and forth each spring. I’ll just say that it can be a damn pain in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope I don’t come across too harsh against the electric company. I realize that when there are power outages because of a bad storm, that it’s not easy dealing with the elements or dealing with what the elements have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m getting really tired of these power outages in this neighborhood. The power’s supposed to come back on by 12:30 tonight. We shall see.
Despite the fact that I might have to pay to get something repaired (I hope not) I’m SOOOO GLAD that there wasn’t any lengthy power outage. In the three years I’ve lived here, there’s been entirely too many power outages[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, maybe I’m overstating our dinner conversation – a bit. All of us, including Jackie, are artists, though she’s not a comic artist or cartoonist and we did talk about a lot of different subjects other than comic books and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seeing the clock saying (and flashing) 2:18 AM it tells me that the power came back on 2 hours and 18 minutes ago but I have no way of knowing how long the power was out. It could have been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t expect this at all. The flyer stated that they’ll be going thru my neighborhood in the upcoming weeks to perform vegetation clearance and wanted a response from the property owners. They had check marked “Remove Trees” and “Prune[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not until you have a power outage that you realize how much you NEED electricity for nearly everything. I still flip on light switches when I walk into another room, I need to search out the correct size batteries[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…