I had all kinds of stuff I was going to share with you last week. Beach glass, a finished project, a great rainy day at the Lake, sunsets …
But first this happened
I left half of the power cord for my laptop right there, plugged in next to the loom. Oops.
My mom’s laptop was available for some basic internet usage while I was there Monday AM-Wednesday early afternoon, but any photo editing or downloading just wasn’t going to happen. I figured I’d catch up on Wednesday evening when I got home from the Lake.
Yeah.
I got home shortly after sunset. And this had happened
Wide view:
That’s parallel to our back fence, over the hill in our gully. We’ve called for estimates to get it cleaned up. Fortunately, if it falls between now and then, the worst thing it could take out is the actual fence. No biggie.
But the bigger deal was this
Don’t see the problem? How ‘bout this view of the same tree
Yeah, those are our power lines (and the power lines for Sydney's humans). Just below the large branch that's horizontal to the ground.
Our power was out when I got home on Wednesday at 7 p.m. (storm had gone through around 4:30 p.m.). We were still dark on Friday afternoon when the power company made it to our neighborhood and started chipping away at our problems. The second tree I showed you was taken care of by these guys
And we had power by around 8:45 p.m. on Friday night. Hooray!
We were fortunate that we had no actual property damage. Just about 52 hours in the dark. We lost the full contents of the fridge and it got a little toasty in the house, but otherwise no actual complaints. As I said to KnitN’at on Friday, the annoyance level was around 12, but the actual danger/damage level was zero. We were pretty fortunate, all things considered.
Meanwhile, we moved some furniture around and are test-driving a different room as our TV room. So far, so good!
I’m headed back up to the Lake Sunday evening. My last trip of the year.
I promise to take all of my power cord this time. You’re welcome.
2 comments:
That happened to one of our trees, too, minus the power lines! And our power didn't go out for more than 2 minutes, thank heavens. We did enough time in the dark back in June. We were lucky, though, most of the rest of our area was in the dark.
Wow. Glad that wasn't any worse!!
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