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Erm. Okay, so the FIRST storm of the season, wasn’t so bad, but this second one packed a wollup. Ugh. It’d been raining all day long, tree branches on the roads and very large puddles forming on the streets. So far, nothing to really write home about. Another storm. Or not.
As Wifey™ and I sat down to watch TV, I prophecized that either our cable would go out, or the power would go out. About 8:30PM, halfway through Survivor, a news scroll went across the top of our screen notifying us that some bridges had been closed due to high winds and that roughly 25,000 people were without power. Minutes later, we were sitting in the dark.
After a little fumbling for the location of our flashlight, we lit all the candles in the house and bunkered down for the night. I pulled out our portable radio that also brings in television stations and we listened to Survivor, CSI and Without a Trace. TV really isn’t that exciting without the actual picture. I don’t know how people used to do it. listening to shows on radio. This whole “imagination” thing is really over-rated.
Living on a highway, as we do, we often know right away when things are up, and last night you’d have thought World War Three had happened. The intersection in front of our apartment was closed down, traffic rerouted. Trees crashing to the ground around us, lakes forming in the streets, and emergency vehicles Ú one after one Ú heading to the scene of the latest disaster. At one point, we were hearing sirens at least once every five minutes.
We finally headed to bed around 10PM, listened to the television-radio and locked ourselves in our room. Around 3AM, the power finally came back on. We know, because of all the sounds our electrical equipment makes when it turns back on.
This morning was a scene unto itself. Sort of what I imagine it’s like to leave your emergency shelter after a tornado, except that we didn’t have our house blown down. Our carport was under about six inches of water. The entrance to the driveway and the streets about the same. Further down the road, lakes about a foot deep had formed overnight on the main street. Even further, cars that tried to get through a particularly deep section of water were submerged to their windows.
Regardless, we both managed to get to work. And now we sit and wait for the third wave to hit us tonight.
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