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catscradle Jul. 16th, 2003 10:30 am)
catscradle Jul. 16th, 2003 10:30 am)Well, we do now. Who knows for how long. Sunday we lost power at 5pm and it didn't come back on till 1:30am Tuesday morning. Found out about 10,000 people were in the same boat and now Excel has to eat crow for swearing Denver was not going to experience the rolling blackouts that California was. Forget the fact that we had rolling blackouts last summer, those weren't really rolling blackouts, more just like passing powerlines in the night. Fleeting, you know?
Well, now they can't deny it. Not so easy to turn you back on 10,000 people without AC or so much as a floor fan when it's hitting 95-103 degrees each day. People have been noticably meaner the past few weeks and that was with their AC. Now the whole city has gone homicidal.
But the adventure doesn't end there, on no. Last night we lost power again when a transformer blew right by the complex. The smell of fried plastic was a refreshing change from the smell of people living without AC for the past 3 days in 100 degree heat. So we called 911 and the fire people came and they were very nice. I had Frodo with me and he was very apologetic to everyone. He was very sure he caused the transformer to blow and he didn't mean to trouble anyone. He licked the boot of a fireman.
I lucked out. I didn't have my computer turned on. The neighbor woman was using hers when the surge hit. The website she was looking at is now fried to her monitor screen. Ouch. I think she'll be in the market for a new computer today.
Lost the whole fridge. kept things in a cooler for a while, but the frozen stuff still thawed and got mushy after yesterday.
The power finally turned on around 3am this morning. But we've been informed by Excel that they don't know if it's temporary or not. . . Great.
The thing that makes me laugh is that one of the firemen said "Well, this wouldn't happen if all those air conditioners weren't turned on." IT's 100 degrees! Should we draw lots and see which of the people in the complex die? Jesus.
The other fireman was super nice though. That's the one whose boot Frodo licked. He was cute too. Wouldn't have minded if he came to check out the house. .. make sure there weren't any smouldering cinders, if you know what I mean.
So that's my blackout story and power better stay on today long enough for me to do laundry, or I'll be going to work naked tomorrow =P
Well, now they can't deny it. Not so easy to turn you back on 10,000 people without AC or so much as a floor fan when it's hitting 95-103 degrees each day. People have been noticably meaner the past few weeks and that was with their AC. Now the whole city has gone homicidal.
But the adventure doesn't end there, on no. Last night we lost power again when a transformer blew right by the complex. The smell of fried plastic was a refreshing change from the smell of people living without AC for the past 3 days in 100 degree heat. So we called 911 and the fire people came and they were very nice. I had Frodo with me and he was very apologetic to everyone. He was very sure he caused the transformer to blow and he didn't mean to trouble anyone. He licked the boot of a fireman.
I lucked out. I didn't have my computer turned on. The neighbor woman was using hers when the surge hit. The website she was looking at is now fried to her monitor screen. Ouch. I think she'll be in the market for a new computer today.
Lost the whole fridge. kept things in a cooler for a while, but the frozen stuff still thawed and got mushy after yesterday.
The power finally turned on around 3am this morning. But we've been informed by Excel that they don't know if it's temporary or not. . . Great.
The thing that makes me laugh is that one of the firemen said "Well, this wouldn't happen if all those air conditioners weren't turned on." IT's 100 degrees! Should we draw lots and see which of the people in the complex die? Jesus.
The other fireman was super nice though. That's the one whose boot Frodo licked. He was cute too. Wouldn't have minded if he came to check out the house. .. make sure there weren't any smouldering cinders, if you know what I mean.
So that's my blackout story and power better stay on today long enough for me to do laundry, or I'll be going to work naked tomorrow =P
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