Power blogging
Make that without power blogging...
Couple of bumps in the night and then pitch black with UPS's beeping all over the place.
Fire up the generator, head into our town to check the store. Everything is pitch black except for our honorable competition (a convenience store with a gas station -- we really don't compete for the same market) who has a nice big propane backup power generator.
Drive about five miles and everything is dark - finally get to a spot where there are a few trucks parked underneath one of the big feeder lines and there is a wire down. The electric company knows and we should get power back on in a couple of hours. Hopefully as there are several thousand dollars worth of frozen foods in the store and that compressor only runs on 3-phase electricity. The store generator can't run it.
Going to check email, have another glass of wine and then shut off the noisemaker and go to sleep... Hopefully, the normal winter insanity will resume in a day or so. It is 60 degrees outside now.
Posted by DaveH at December 3, 2007 11:08 PM