Silence

At the risk of being repetitive, it's great to be home, your own bed, your own shower and coffee from your own pot. Well 2 out of 3 ain't bad (to quote another song). When we woke up this morning there was silence, not a sound. NK got up and said "that's weird". It seems the ceiling fan was still. Of course she flipped the switch a few times to make sure it was not going to come back on. It was then she determined that we had no power. I checked the circuit breaker just to make sure before I called the power companies automated power outage reporting system. You just can't talk to a person at all these days!

After punching all of the buttons on my touch tone phone I was told that CB had city wide outages with anticipated restoration around 9AM. We got our power back about 5 minutes later, just after I lit the candle in the bathroom (I heard this whrrrrrrrrr and then the refrigerator kicked in so I knew we were in business).

I wonder how many people were late for work because they couldn't get their garage door open (did not think to pull the rope to disconnect the latch)?