Don’t it always seem to go like that?
I sure missed the power when it was gone this weekend. We had a really brief storm on Saturday around 3:30pm but it did heaps of damage. I went for a walk afterwards and there were trees and branches down all over the place. Our street’s powerlines got twisted and wrapped around themselves, with big tree branches across the road. The Energex blokes worked from around 4pm until 7am this morning, with the power coming back on at 6:30 for us.
Crazy stuff. It was pretty bizarre coming home at 11:30 at night to a pitch-dark house, except for the flashing orange lights strobing in the front door.
I have no idea how humanity managed to get to the point where Edison could invent the light globe. Having no juice in the wires sucked ass yesterday. It was so hot and humid, but I couldn’t turn the fan on. I couldn’t watch TV, I couldn’t even iron my clothes to go out, and I had to shave by the light of my trusty torch. I went out hoping I’d remembered to cover all the required body parts, and I think I succeeded.
So thanks the Energex blokes who spent the night sorting things right out.