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Our area has been without power since about 4 pm on Wednesday. It's not unusual for that to happen for several days at a time every winter; this is a hilly, forested area and high winds blow down big tree-parts, boom! across roads and power lines and such. Normally, it's not biggie for our standby generator. Except this time, said generator failed to generate. So we got out candles, kerosene lantern, flashlights, and made up a fire in the fireplace. The repair person was in the area, and he got it started. We trundled along quite happily until yesterday suppertime, when the generator again decided it was not going to generate. Fortunately, dinner was hot, candles were to hand, and both our laptops had enough power so we had interesting things to do until bedtime. Power has now been restored, and things that have batteries are re-charging. The generator is due for a check up, not to mention a severe talking-to.

I am struck by how comfortable we were. We weren't cold, we had plenty of food, even without digging into our emergency no-cooking-need supplies, and a means to make hot tea this morning (a propane-powered cooker-thingie that would also have provided stir-frying wherewithal for tonight's dinner). We had running water (even hot showers, because our water heater is gas) and working toilets. This morning, we had plenty of things to do that did not require electricity: taking the dog for a walk, playing piano, sweeping up storm debris, working in the garden, reading a book... Our landline telephone worked. Our neighbors chatted with us and those with functional generators offered to run extension cords across the street if we really needed anything.

Still, it's nice to be in touch via the intarwebs again.

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Deborah J. Ross

November 2020

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