Yay, Blackouts...

[redneckgaijin]

Losing electricity is not an uncommon thing, out here in the country. Out here the power "grid" is more like the "power lonely little bits of copper string that make one broad loop out into the middle of nowhere for the few hundred or so people in the two hundred square mile area."

Today, however, was unusual in that the power loss was heralded not by surges, but by a series of brownouts. We spent a couple minutes testing to see if any of our (fairly old) A/C units might be causing it locally, but finally ruled them out. At length, about 6:30 PM or so, the power went out completely. After a little less than ten minutes it came on again, then went out about 7:10 and stayed out until 8:25 or so, give or take.

Weather was a possibility- usually our power losses are weather related, trees on lines and the like. However, the rain didn't hit our house until just after the power came back on for what appears to be good. Even then, it was an isolated (but large, and quite heavy) thunderstorm, not a broad storm front or anything like that.

I caught the 9 O'Clock News on Houston channel 26, the Fox affiliate, and only then learned that:

(a) the power outage we'd had stretched over eight counties, including the Woodlands just north of Houston, Huntsville, and a region stretching almost from Bryan to Beaumont; and

(b) most of that area didn't have power yet, nor was expected to anytime soon. Someone, somewhere, had cut us a special break.

That's why not much got done this evening, and why I'm going to log off almost immediately after posting this and wait until morning to do anything serious; what the bureaucrats give, they also take away, and my luck would be that the power will go out again any tim

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[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

Cute.

Very cute.