Well, That Was Fun (Not)

[the_other_sandy]

Going to the laptop didn't help. About 10 minutes after I made my last post, the storm hit and the power went out, taking my wireless router with it. The thunder and lightning weren't bad, but it was very windy (gusts up to 70 m.p.h.). We very rarely lose power around here, because it's an industrial area and the warehouses and factories are priority customers. On those rare occasions we do lose power, we get it back within an hour or two. This time, it went out and stayed out for 15 1/2 hours. It was miserable trying to sleep without the air conditioning on last night.

I just hope the contents of my fridge survive. I went grocery shopping about 2 hours before the storm hit. I haven't opened the fridge at all, and I think I'm going to leave it closed for another 4 hours or so just to be safe. Then I'll get to open the door and be surprised by what made it and what didn't.

Meanwhile, I think I'm going to see what restaurants in the area have reopened. I haven't eaten in 17 hours.

Comments

power outage

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I'm surprised. Our power was only out for 12 hours; yours is usually back much faster. We've still got trees down all over the place, but the amazing thing is that it all passed through in less than 2 hours. We went to the mall for dinner, and everything was fine. By the time we got home, power was out and branches/trees were down everywhere, but the storms had all passed. Must have been a good one, and I totally missed it.

Margie

Re: power outage

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

That's the weird thing--it didn't seem that bad a storm. There was hardly any thunder or lightning, and it rained about like normal. It was pretty windy, but I've been through a lot worse without losing power here. It was also pretty localized. I went to Davi's for breakfast and Roselle hadn't lost power at all. They had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them if their power had gone out.