What a fun 24 hours we’ve just had.

We haven’t gotten much out of the latest series of storms…but the other night it started to snow (finally…it hasn’t done that here since right after Christmas), and the flakes were huge. Around 11:30 or so the lights dimmed…but didn’t got out. I figured they would soon, so I shut down the computer and unplugged all magor appliances. The brown-out lasted for quite a while.

Then right around midnight or so (this would be the 9th now) there was a huge flash of light out of the living room window. We were thinking lightening, even though thunder storms don’t generally mix with snow storms…and of course, we didn’t hear any thunder. The lights then went off, and flicked back on…went off, and flicked back on…and then went off for good. We figured a transformer must have blew at the power sub-station up here…that was the flash of light we had seen.

So we lit candles and I caught up on my reading until I got tired. We slept out in the living room, as my room gets really cold without a heater going…and without electricity…no heater.

I figured the power would have been back on when we woke up in the morning. But no, it was not. And come evening…still no power. The boys were getting bored, I was getting cranky (no shower, no computer, no tv, no video games…we were all wearing thin and getting on each others nerves). And to boot, the snow had stopped sometime in the night and all we were getting now was rain.

Some time later, like oh about quarter to 1 in the morning on the 10th (yes, about an hour ago), the power finally came back on. Woohoo! Good thing, too…it was just starting to get chilly and we didn’t have any more firewood laying around (we have a woodstove and a kerosene heater).

I must say, though…I caught up on a good bit of my reading…lol!