Power Outage

All the weather services started talking on Sunday about the coming windy weather. They said it would be windy on Monday, ease up a bit on Tuesday and be back on Wednesday...all of this with intermittent rain. We were also told to be ready for power outages.

I got in the shower at 7:40 this morning and almost immediately, the power went out. I showered in the dark and made it a short one so as to not use up whatever hot water we had remaining.

I drove around the neighborhood to try and figure out the extent of the outage. It went from our block to the west, over to parts of Monroe Street and south to Buckeye. It didn't look like it went north beyond us and houses down the street to the east from us had power.

The electricity stayed off all day. I essentially did nothing but nap.

We left the house about five to go watch the Gonzaga game. As we left, the power came back. Then went out. After a few more minutes, it was on for good.

I'm sure I have noted this before here in this Blog but let me note it again. I find it quite disquieting how dependent on electricity we are. I do have a generator, but I did not bother to pull it out as I figured the power would come back on sooner. I mean, Hell, we are in the middle of the city. Isn't that a priority?!

Anyway, I think I'm going to dig out the generator and make sure it's working okay and place it where I have better access to it.

The other problem we ran into today was accessing the garage. With the power out, the garage door won't open. We have a side door on it, but the concrete has heaved up to such an extent that it prevented the door from opening much more than a Susan sized sliver.

She was able to get in and detach the door from the rail so we could open the door.

I took a sledgehammer to the concrete and made it a bit more accessible.

In short, not much accomplished today.