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The power in my house came back on a little before 8:00 last night, but I never quite recovered from spending the last three hours before that in the cold and dark. If I’d known for sure that I wouldn’t have power all night, I probably would have gone to bed at 6:00 pm. But for some reason, with nothing to back it up, I had hope. I even phoned the utility company’s outage line one last desperate time, at about 7:15, and instead of the hopeless message I’d been getting all day, they told me that there might be some new information if I called back at 8:30. So I stayed up in the dark, and I didn’t have to call again, because the lights (etc.) came back before that deadline.
It’s raining again tonight, hard at times. The wind is blowing again, but not nearly as strongly as it did the night before last. The ground around my house can’t hold much more water, so I’m happy that this series of storms is expected to end tomorrow. The sun came out, faintly and briefly, this afternoon, and that was enough to make some of the bigger puddles in my driveway a little less threatening.
I even made it to the post office today, though no farther. And when I came home, I took the shovel and redug the trench that protects my garage from flooding. Then I took the big broom and swept all the water out of the garage. I don’t think anything important was damaged, but there’s no use taking a chance, especially since there’s no way to know for sure that the power will stay on long enough for me to get into the garage and dry it out again. |
