Welcome Irene

[bec_87rb]

Waiting for the hurricane Irene. Closing windows. Doing laundry because you know the electricity will go out. Oh, there won't be dangerous winds or flooding, or any obvious reason, but the power will go out and possibly be back for days. :)

EDIT: We hunkered, there was rain and wind, but not very scary

Comments

[suegypt]

Hunker down

[artmonkeygirl]

Yes, what she said.

[chhinnamasta]

The power goes out for days there?!

are you still alive or did Irene blow you away?

[bec_87rb]

After Isabel, Dominion Power pulled obviously live wires off the road, but repaired the grid top-down, from the big substations down to more local transformers down to local outages. Our part of the subdivision was cut off from the grid for days, long enough to spoil everything in the deep freezer during the 30C degree heat. We were also asked to boil our water for several days after the pumps failed at the water treatment plant. What people without gas stoves did about that boiling thing I know not.

We finally gave up and went to my sister's apartment one night, just to get some air conditioned sleep. During that period, some things in the pantry that normally shouldn't spoil, did. Most notably, maple syrup molded. I'd never seen that, although, I admit, I'd never stored that kind of thing in above 27C/80F conditions.

[chhinnamasta]

The post-hurricane landscape in your neck o' the woods sounds a bit like Mad Max.

Glad y'all made it through the storm this time with power grid intact.

[bec_87rb]

Well I did set a trap for my neighbors in order to steal their go-juice. So, yes, a bit Mad Max.