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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Rolling Blackouts

Sorry I'm so late in posting. We are experiencing what the electric company is referring to as "Rolling Blackouts." Basically, they aren't yet able to provide everybody with power all of the time, so we are sharing.

We'll have power for a while, then the next neighborhood over will have it for a while, and then the next one and so on until they get back to us again. And unfortunately, there is no schedule. So one minute we have power, then next, nada. And we never know how long we'll be without and how long we'll be with.

So, with such a limited amount of time online, I am scrambling to answer emails and conduct what business I can before being bumped off the system. This is supposed to go on for weeks, maybe months. But at least we have some power!!

I'll try to have my posts written one day in advance, so I can copy and paste as soon as I have power. But if I'm posting late or not participating in the "comments" section as often as I usually do, it will probably be because I don't have access.

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posted by Deeanne at 3:03 PM

6 Comments:

Barb said...: Ya know, we have our little occasional issues here, but the Midwest is really a very nice place to live! Hope the next hurricane chooses a different place to play, so you can get back to normalcy soon. After all this, I'm thinkin' that normalcy will look pretty special once it does resume... :o0
Deeanne said...: Yeah, it's amazing how I take such things like electricity for granted. Do you have any idea how QUIET a house is when the electricity is off? I can hear the birds and crickets and everything. No hum of A/Cs, fans, computers, nothing. Nothing but quiet, quiet, quiet. And I'm finding that has its advantages as well. At least until the house heats up. The heat index today was 110-degrees. Wowza!
Barb said...: Grooooss! We're havin' a brief foray into windchills here, sigh. 37 tonite, plus blustery blowing. I'd share it with you if I could! Thought of Bug Woman this evening at the Wed night program in our church school. A luvly display of butterflies and various other entomological wonders mounted in cases in one classroom. Of course they used styrofoam to stick their victims into, which was unavailable at the time of your story, so it'll be interesting to hear what Bug Woman uses in her displays.
Deeanne said...: 37 degrees?! Woman, don't y'all know it is still September! My goodness. We won't see 37 until January, for heaven's sake. Brrrr!
Barb said...: I didn't think Texans ever saw 37 degrees?! Let's see, if you take the average of 37 and 110, you get 73 1/2. Maybe we should both move to some really middle American state like Missouri? No hurricanes there either! Are you workin' on your 3rd book yet? When the electricity's on, of course.
Susan said...: Hey Barb! Actually, we do see 37 degrees but that's towards the end of January and for only a few days. Can you believe we had snow Christmas Eve last year? My 4 kids went crazy and loved it, especially when I slipped due to the slick soles on my boots. It was really funny. However, my American Eskimo dogs (Northern dogs) were terrified of it -- Go figure!