Power finally came back on this morning after we made various attempts to get the attention of Oncor folks in the neighborhood. I posted remarks on the automated system last night (the AI bot said "I don't understand your question" but I hoped a human might read it anyway) about the line fuse/breaker on a pole a couple of hundred yards from here. It's always the last thing for them to restore, though this time that wasn't enough. When they reconnected it this morning nothing happened. There was lots of communication between our houses as we shared what we knew. The neighbor with the generator is the one who told Oncor (she spotted them at that switch) that the other neighbor had seen sparks, sending them on the door to door search to find the problem and it was an open transformer that had sparked. Quite a granular process of repair this time.

The sink is full of dishes and the kitchen table is loaded with small appliances that were plugged and unplugged into the power strip I used with the line run from the next door generator. I'll go refill my garage gas can (used for yard power tools or for their generator - I get the gas with no ethanol). There was enough warm water in the hot water tank last night that I could take a quick shower since I couldn't stand myself. Now for laundry and to recharge various devices. This time of year was comfortable enough, not like February 2021 when it was four days of sleeping in the closet with the dogs.

Now to figure out about roofers. I'll call a couple of them tomorrow. What a busy end of the month.