It’s Nice Having Electricity Again!
June 27th, 2009
Posted in: Life
For those of you not in the know, I was without power from about 2:30am Friday morning until about 8:30am today. There was a crazy storm that rolled through Friday with >60MPH winds and a shit ton of lightning. My brother woke everyone up to inform us there was no power, so I sat outside and watched the storm for a while I think it is safe to say there were at least three lightning strikes per second. They sounded like they were getting uncomfortably close, so I went back inside and set the alarm clock on my phone and went back to sleep.
After I got home from work Friday, there was still no power. So I listened to the radio for a while (I couldn’t believe a station in Cincinnati was playing some decent black metal!). My brother and I both agreed that the situation sucked, so we went outside, hooked the iPod into the radio for some metal goodness, and started a fire in the grill. All of our non-frozen foods were spoiled and/or funky smelling, so we grabbed some ham and burgers from the freezer and cooked (read: burned) them on the grill. I couldn’t eat one of the burgers, it was so bad.
I think I am going to charge up an older uninterruptible power supply I have, so that it may be used to power my laptop and the DSL modem during lengthy periods of power failure.
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