I got the Power!

Big storm Thursday night, lots of rain and strong wind (60 mph). Wake up Friday morning to no power. Look outside. Lots of trees down. Check the local newspaper via the cell phone and see that power for most of Haverhill should be restored by 5am....it is 6am. Assume power should be restored soon. Joe goes to work. Amy stays home with the kids. Joe checks the National Grid website to get an update. Finds the outage map below. Joe thinks "That's a lot of people with out power"

Joe then finds the following website. Verifies orginal thought - 57K without power. He thinks "Assessing the condition? They said the power would be on at 5am it is 11 am. Uncle Danny at Duke Power would not let this happen" and then he comes to the conclusion "this is not good"

Joe calls Amy. Amy confirms that the power is still not on. The house temp is at 58. Breast Milk in freezer may thaw out. Amy calls neighbor for help. They have multiple generators. Neighbor hooks up their generator to the freezer with the breast milk. Amy then finds out their other generators are not at their house. Amy feels like a jerk. Amy calls the local Home Depot and asks if they have generators. They laugh. She calls Lowes they laugh. Joe finds finds a store with a generator. Buys the generator. Drives home. Starts to hook up new generator. Power goes back on.

We may have over reacted in buying the generator, but last year it was 4 days before we had power. As of this morning there were still 50K houses with out power in our county. Perhaps we were first in line rather than last. Oh well, we are now the proud owners of a 5,000W generator. Powerful enough to run the furnance, fridge, some lights, and a TV or two. We are a litte bummed we did not get to use the new generator. We are both secretly wanting another power outage.

Enough of that, here are some fun photos!

Having Fun