For a variety of reasons I shall not get into here, coupled with an extraordinary amount of luck/karma/whathaveyou, we've spent 6 years in this house and have never lost power for more than a few minutes. All good things must come to an end, and that streak ended with a whimper (from us) on June 29, 2012. Ironically, we lost power after the super windy, super rainy storm has passed us by. But no power when we went to sleep Friday night, and no power for the next several days, either. Worst part was it was clearly a very local outage - Olinda Drive, around the corner from us, had power, and so did houses just up the block. Maybe 12 houses in total were affected.
Other worse part would be the 90-something degree day temperatures. While it would drop down into the 70s at night, there was no real way, besides just opening windows, to circulate air through the house. We made it through the first three nights sleeping in the basement, but by Monday, even the basement was pretty unpleasant. The temperature upstairs had reached about 89 degrees, and downstairs was rapidly catching up. On the 4th powerless day, we packed up the house and took refuge with our friends Peggy and Avrom (and their kiddos E and S). This picture was taken that afternoon, and we luxuriated in the A/C. Amity and S got on quite well and were enjoying parallel artistic pursuits while their big sisters were at camp.
Power came back the following morning. I had never been so happy to see a Dominion truck before! Many thanks to the Tobiases (and the Zimmermans, and all of the other families who offered to cool us, feed us, shelter us, and let us use their internet and showers, but not at the same time). We have the power again.
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