The lights are back on
We’ve got power again. It went out in the middle of the night on Thursday. Yesterday we thought a generator would be good idea, but we were three steps behind everyone else who had thought of that on Thursday. The papers say the 1 1/2 million people lost power during the storm. Thank you to my brother and sister-in-law for a nice, warm shower. And a huge thank you to our neighbors, four houses up, who let us run an extension cord to our house. Nick picked up 3 100’ extension cords and we ran them down to our house. Then we had power for the radiant floor pump and were able to plug in our refrigerator. Last night we were able to sleep without hats and extra blankets and the power was back on at 1:00 when I got up with Atticus. Now I’m running the dishwasher and washing clothes.
We’re having a holiday open house this afternoon, so it is perfect timing to have power back.
The tree is still standing, but once everyone else has taken care of their downed trees, we’re going to have an arborist look at it. They say many of the trees were weakened because of the storm, so we want to check it out.
Here’s to good wishes for calm weather for everyone- it sure seemed like mother nature was mad about something!
4 Comments
Nick·December 17, 2006
As for the extension cords - we did it once and now we did it again. We have a party planned for today and I was starting to do the mental calculation of how many amps we _really_ had to play with given the 300’ run or cord…
Greg·December 17, 2006
Whew! It could have been worse. The storm never got down this far. I don’t know what happened. Everyone said we were going to get blasted just like you guys did. We had about 2 minutes showers yesterday, and that was it. The temp sure dropped, though.
Nick·December 17, 2006
Yeah, take the whole “weakened tree” story with a big grain of salt. I’ve been through a number of wind storms throughout the west, the worst being Montana where the winds we saw this week is a quite common occurence. There are some unscrupulous professionals out there, that just love to cut down a tree and charge you for it based on perceived fear. Like a medical procedure. Get a second and/or third opinion on your cedar.
Derek·December 18, 2006
Sounds like the storm was worse south of the border. Vancouver Island seems to have taken most of the damage. A large cedar did come down in the park behind us though. Stanley Park is a mess too, they say it might take up to a year to clean it up, and a lot of the trees were over 100 years old.