Let's ring in the new year with a countywide power outage!

[sholio]

I'm going to be scarce online for a few days because we're in the middle of an extended power outage - going on 30 hours now, likely to last until Wednesday (if we're lucky) or more realistically Thursday or later. We have a generator, but are running it intermittently to save fuel and also to save wear on the generator, since a replacement can't be had in this town right now for love or money. The entire area had a blizzard and ice storm this weekend, so there are widespread outages and ones like ours - a single-household outage caused by a storm-related blown fuse on our power pole - are understandably at the bottom of their priority list. (Honestly I have nothing but praise for our power company. They have always been excellent with communication, easy to get hold of, rarely have extended outages despite having to deal with some of the worst winter weather around, and are normally very fast to respond to outage reports. They're overwhelmed right now for reasons beyond their control.)

Meanwhile, we're doing fine. We have lots of food and a generator that's capable of powering the household essentials (heat, fridge, device recharging, etc), and we can go to town for anything we need - or even move into a hotel or AirBnB if it really comes to that, though we're hoping not to have to.

However, I only have laptop internet when the generator is running and otherwise I'm on my phone, so I'll be slow responding to emails, comments and the like. This entry is also posted at https://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1424857.html with
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