Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Just short of an hour and half...



Storm came in and shut down our power, only for an hour and twenty-five minutes, from 3:50 P.M. to 5:15 P.M.
I am usually the first in the area to call it in on our land-line with the old fashioned hook-up, not the newer kind, without the wire attachment.

Perhaps, the reason that I am the first is probably because many have the other type, wireless and in a power failure they don’t work. Of course your cell does, that is if it wasn’t that bad a storm, the type that takes those towers down, but this wasn’t.

Being the first I think confuses the computer system, since when no other calls have come in yet many a time they tell us to check our electric panel to see if it snapped off, due to no other complaints of no power. Then they go on to say, in that computer voice, if that is the case we have to reset it and if it doesn’t reset to call a licensed electrical contractor, since it is NOT their problem most likely yours! Huh? Well, Hubby went into the garage where our panel is and immediately said that no, ours did not snap shut-off, and the meter which is on the same wall was not working at all either!
I went back to the phone, but it seems the computer who said they would hold on to wait till we checked, hung up; if they can do such things, I suppose this proves that they can, hmm?

And so I called back, and this time they told me that it was a main power line down due to the storm and two hundred and thirty-five homes were also out of power…It’s nice to be exonerated and not made to feel at fault… whew!
The approximate repair time would take until 5:45 P.M.; this was still only around four, okay I thought, not too bad.
As most all of you know I get antsy and so around five-ish I gave them another call…since they did promise updates by phone on our land-line and not one had come in! So I called and this time the compu-voice said they were working on the problem and now only one hundred and thirty–one homes were still without power, which at that point we were included…and the automated tone gave me a new time when the repair would be accomplished of 7:30 P.M., what??????

Fortunately, Hubby and I had another big lunch out…we had a bit of a bunch of stops today, starting with my gym/rehab time and from there to the bank drive thru, across the parking lot from the gym/rehab, to cash a check we received for an overpayment at closing, $17, we are slowly building up our cash in case of having to evacuate due to a hurricane and this went into that pot… after there my new medical insurance card had to be copied at my doctor’s office right on the next block and then Hubby went in for that, and from there to Meals on Wheels, a few more blocks away, where Hubby got the brilliant idea to donate quite a few, six, of my Styrofoam coolers that my Copaxone is delivered in to them so that they can deliver their meals to the elderly and even eighteen of our cold packs, we had accumulated so many cold packs, in just the three years that I have been on the Copaxone. I had tried to originally give them, coolers and cold packs, to the Red Cross, but there were too many glitches with getting the local number for contacting them. Hubby’s idea was absolutely wonderful and they were very happy to receive them. Then a stop at Walgreen’s for our fancy wine, and lastly to the Goal Post Restaurant, for a lunch fish special at $4.99!
Just around the time of 5:15 P.M. when the power was restored, Hubby and I had chosen our light dinners, his would you believe was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, comfort at its finest and mine a salad, those were going to be pretty much what we were going to have anyway, except for some homemade soup, next time. Hard to make soup without power, unless it’s a Gazpacho; but you still have to use a blender or food processor or of course cold Borscht could have worked, which I do have beets in the pantry and of course living in hurricane country we do have a hand held can opener. Oh well, more ideas just flow in after the fact… Hubby wouldn’t eat Borscht though anyway… just as well, not big on Gazpacho for his likes either, those are more to my liking.

On those high and low notes of a more than a boring day, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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