You may recall our torrid history with power outages at our old house. This was one thing we were not going to miss about moving. I even started a list of outages to keep a record of it. We've average about 1 per year, but none longer than a couple hours. The streak finally ended on Tuesday. Most of the house woke up about 1:15am when it went out. I pretty quickly reported it to our power company, queued up some iPad white noise and tried to get back to sleep.
I was up and down for the next couple hours checking for updates. About 4:30 I heard the first chainsaw noises and was able to determine a large part of a neighbor's tree had taken out the line. We didn't have any storms overnight, but it was very windy. I was already planning to pack up our food and take it to my parent's house if it wasn't back up in 4 hours and this solidified my decision.
Esme was a little worried I took all the food away, but eventually found it fun to eat by candlelight. This was the first major outage she's experienced so it was all new. I ran out and grabbed McDonald's breakfast for Parker before getting Esme on the bus and heading in to the office to work. The power was back by about 10am and the internet a few hours later. We all took a trip out to Grandpa and Nana's house to eat dinner and pick up our food. Parker was a great helper bringing in the trash can.
We stopped for treats at the local gas station before heading home.
Here are some pictures of the aftermath. It took a couple days for the low hanging internet wire to be repaired.
Quite the tree, and this was only 1/3 of it. I am guessing they will have the rest of the tree removed since it would fall on the house if anything more happened.
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