Power out, here, Thursday evening thru about 5PM tonight-- camping in the house gets old!
But I proved a theory I wondered about when I was in serious poverty-- that being poor eats the clock. Living rough makes everything take so much longer. And the pedometer bore it out. In a day when I did not accomplish more than an average day of late, the ped numbers were doubled what they would have been if the mod cons had been working. Oh well. (Why my camping activity level is always higher.)
We had our requisite 40 gallons of water on hand as we always do-- our house electrics go down about once a month for an evening or more. This just was a tad longer than usual.
Another good reason not to have had the yard sale this weekend! :~) All the neighbors were unpowered as well, and no one went much of anywhere except for urgent supplies.
The tornadoes did not hit us (just one window broke and some treelimbs fell in the grass-- no biggie) but there were some real bad road wrecks and I heard someone got crushed by a tree going down in a park, too. We were very lucky TBTG.
Kudos to local radio KC-101 for running updates on various things, with a generator powering their broadcast. And TBTG my MP3 player was charged enough to give me FM radio to hear them.
Hardi had a neat thingie we used-- but that's for later.