Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Delayed due to power failure...



The storm has appeared to have passed us by, after its shutting our power down for nearly an hour.
And for a while there, it was really loud and bright, thunder rumbled way too close to home as well as those clashes of lightening that makes you realize having a house with big bright openings, called windows, was that such a good idea after all?
Happy to be inside and away from all windows in that situation.
One thing that we all have to admit though, temperature wise, you can’t beat a passing storm to bring those too warm temps of 94 degrees down to a manageable more tolerable temperature of 76!

As usual I was first again to call the power company and again they were not aware that we were not the only ones without power and accused of us of having an electrical problem within the house and suggested we check the electrical panel and call a repairman if it wasn’t back on if we reset it and still nothing happened! Eventually, as it turned out that we were one of 230 homes without power with their later assessments all due to the storm!
I gave them our landline once again, although, they knew which line I was on; the one I had called them on, on our old fashioned phone with wires, and they asked if they could call us on that line to give us updates, I said sure.

At six o’clock the phone rang, but it was my doctor’s office, robo call, confirming my neuro appointment for this week.

Around six fifteen the power company called back, but not on the house phone, on my cell!
I was annoyed I had requested many times previously to remove that number from their computer since we reduced our minutes to save money on those two lines that Hubby and I shared, to only 150 minutes a month total, down from the initial of 300, costing us a mere $25 a month now, before taxes from everyone. That was done after the first couple of months we rarely used more than 60 minutes, mostly around 30, to us it saved us a few bucks more a month; so why not?
And with Consumer Cellular you can go up or down with minutes just by
calling, no contracts.

Any-who, the power has been back on since I started writing nearly;
and now Florida Power and Light called the right phone number, our landline, just a few seconds ago, huh? The power has been back on, Gosh, nearly a half hour!

Moving on…
Sadly our county of Charlotte County Florida had a deputy killed in the line of duty last night approaching an apartment complex that had a domestic dispute going on. The ace shooter, without a record of any kind shot this officer just above his vest, which killed this fine young man of forty-two, father of three and husband that I had met only once, but Hubby knew from working with him years ago. Hubby claims this gentleman in the uniform always had a smile on his face and was pleasant to everyone.
Hubby showed this man who came from starting at the jail around at the time Hubby’s community policing district and they served together from that district two office for a few years. Our heart goes out to that family and the services will be held at the end of the week at our Punta Gorda Convention Center for all to attend. Sergeant Mike Wilson will be sorely missed by all.

On that way too sad note, which makes us realize how important it is to count all our blessings and share all our overages with you know who and we will too!

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

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