So last night we're sitting in the living room of Sister Roxy's home. We're basking in the glow of finally finishing the "puzzle from the nether regions," enjoying the gas fire, and watching the semi-finals of Dancing With the Stars. Suddenly the lights flickered, then came back on; they flickered again and went off; came back on; then there was a boom off in the distance (a transformer?) and everything went off -- and stayed off!
It's amazing on dark it is when all of the lights from all of the computers, cell phones, kindles, etc. are off. After lighting a few candles and a couple of lanterns; it looks like the power is not coming back on, so we head off to bed -- thinking we can read our kindles in the warmth of blankets until the power comes back on.
This morning there was still no power. Roxy's house is very light so it's not a problem -- except you really do need to take a lantern into the bathroom with you! Rich had the generator going for the refrigerator and freezers plus a couple of outlets so that we could charge our cell phones.
Sister Roxy had haircut appointment this noon at a local spa, so she called to see if I could get a massage at the same time. When we got there, they had no power either, but had their generator going, so I started my massage by candlelight. The spa's power came back about half-way through, so the masseuse finished to music.
When we got back to Roxy's there was still no power and she was beginning to have withdrawal from not being able to play her Facebook games (we were not able to get on-line at the place we went for lunch!). But finally at 3 o'clock, the power was back! It hadn't even been off for 24 hours, but it sure was missed...
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