Power down...
The following was written at around 6pm yesterday.
"A storm was in the forecast but it came and went in minutes, at 5:20pm it became dusk and stayed that way with just occasional brief rain flurries that continue now. Strangely the power went out in the first minute. It is still off and a recorded phone call came informing us that the power will be restored by 5:30am May 16. A transformer must have decided to blow in anticipation. Thank goodness for our generator. After the 2012 Sandy experience, it was viewed as a necessity. It is more than ever now.
So it's cranking away in the backyard like a VW Beetle, rumbling and having misses like it needs a turn-up, but that's normal. The lights are on here, but from my seat in front of the computer, our windows show no lights in three directions. Every pretty penny spent on that generator was worth it. It runs on gas, underground, so the one thing that determines staying power is oil. It burns oil as it runs, and after a never predictable time it needs a refill. Generally two days can be counted on, a day more possibly.
Settling in now, two chapters to go in a good book, both teams are playing baseball tonight, and The New Yorker, The Nation, and The Economist all showed up in the mail. That's what I got, ge"
That's when internet and television access, Cablevision, shut down. The choice of magazines was helpful, and fortunately there was a DVD on hand, no streaming required. It was "Trash", a well done, touching, and all together preposterous Brazilian film that was a feel good story about four desperately poor, and seemingly parentless, children in a favela. Don't worry be happy. Both the power and the cable access came back around 1am.
"A storm was in the forecast but it came and went in minutes, at 5:20pm it became dusk and stayed that way with just occasional brief rain flurries that continue now. Strangely the power went out in the first minute. It is still off and a recorded phone call came informing us that the power will be restored by 5:30am May 16. A transformer must have decided to blow in anticipation. Thank goodness for our generator. After the 2012 Sandy experience, it was viewed as a necessity. It is more than ever now.
So it's cranking away in the backyard like a VW Beetle, rumbling and having misses like it needs a turn-up, but that's normal. The lights are on here, but from my seat in front of the computer, our windows show no lights in three directions. Every pretty penny spent on that generator was worth it. It runs on gas, underground, so the one thing that determines staying power is oil. It burns oil as it runs, and after a never predictable time it needs a refill. Generally two days can be counted on, a day more possibly.
Settling in now, two chapters to go in a good book, both teams are playing baseball tonight, and The New Yorker, The Nation, and The Economist all showed up in the mail. That's what I got, ge"
That's when internet and television access, Cablevision, shut down. The choice of magazines was helpful, and fortunately there was a DVD on hand, no streaming required. It was "Trash", a well done, touching, and all together preposterous Brazilian film that was a feel good story about four desperately poor, and seemingly parentless, children in a favela. Don't worry be happy. Both the power and the cable access came back around 1am.
posted by John Borden at 8:37 AM
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