Staying comfortable and safe during a power outage was the exercise this weekend. I heard more from the neighbor up hill from me than I have in ages, but our three houses at this end of the block seemed to be the ones that finally solved the mystery of why our whole long block was without power. We compared notes and the power company guys finally went door to door till they found the transformer that had popped open when an event uphill blew out the power. A lightning strike started it.

One neighbor has a generator and runs a line across the fence to me to help keep the fridges cold and run an electric kettle and a lamp; the other neighbor doesn't have a generator but they own a second house a few miles from here and can bug out to that location.