Exciting, but not in a good way.

 Not long after I finished the last blog, we started hearing what I thought was gunshots.  Husband saw flashes by the neighbor's barn. We looked. 

Fire! 

He called the neighbor, I called 911.  As it turned out, it was fuses blowing out on the power lines. It was from a tree hitting, and pulling them down. It was fire, but more on the order of shorting out, not things bursting into flame.  Went out pretty quickly...

As did our power.  

We had a fire going, and Husband started a generator to get the fridge cold for a while. I called in to the power company, and tried to tell the @#$!&**#  phone tree that we had an outage. Oddly, I guess my voice is a problem. Please say 3 if the power is out.

3.

I'm sorry, I didn't hear that, please say 3 if the power is out.

THREE!!!!

I'm sorry I didn't hear that, please say... Click, as I hang up the phone. Husband said to use the touchpad.  I called back, just in time for a very harried gent from the power company calling me back to get our address. The $&#@!!& machine HAD heard it! So I told him, and he said we were 200th call for outages since he'd gotten to work an hour before.  Yikes... 

I listened to ice chunks, tree branches, and who knows what else fall during the night.  And we had one idiot neighbor, still not sure who, that was setting off fireworks. The kind that go way up then explode.  Didn't have many, only happened a few times, but he could have picked a much better night. 

The morning was getting a look at what happened a bit better. Get the fire built up for the day, run the generator, I exercised. We took showers while the generator was running. Shut it off, and then contacted family and neighbors to check on them. I then took a nap. 

The gents showed up midday to repair the wires. Surprised me, thought it would be much longer. They got at it, untangling the tree, getting it out of the road, and stretching new wire and re-fusing the fuses. We were out about a day or so, and one night. 

We are sincerely grateful to the power folks, it was icy, rainy, cold, and generally nasty, but they got things up and running amazingly quickly. Hopefully we don't have anything else fall or fail, but we have everything ready in case it does. 

Hopefully they can keep it up, and help the rest of the folks out of power... I think it was about 5500+, at last count.

And that's just our power company!