Surfergeeks

So a couple of huge thunder storms last night. I love thunder storms. The thunder, the lightning. Watching the rain hit the ground.

Anyway, point of this post. The storms yesterday made for quite an interesting and funny night.

So, about a quarter to nine last night the storm gets so bad, we start to lose our satellite signal. No big, it’s really expected. We did finally lose signal, so, while waiting for it to some back, I went into the bedroom to change into my pajamas. As I came out, Rob–still in the living room–exclaimed about the power going out. I asked him what he was talking about; the lights were still on in the bedroom. Yet, Rob was right, the power had gone out. Only it had gone out for only half my apartment. Hallway-no power, Kitchen-no power, except for the fridge, Living room-nada. Bathroom and storage closet-all good. Bedroom-the closet had power and one outlet, the rest, no power.

It was just plain weird, who has half their power go out? Besides, about 5 minutes later, the power goes out for the rest of the South end of the city. So, we waited in the dark for it to come back, figuring our living room was just psychic and had just predicted the power outage and was trying to warn us in advance.

So, about another 5 minutes later, power returned, but again for only half the apartment. Okay, so both of us are going “WTF?”. I then call my apartment’s emergency contact number to report the issue. Well, at least I found out my apartment isn’t the only one affected. There was a couple more in the building with the same situation.

Since, we are now missing Alias, Rob and I now try to figure out what to do without TV. The power being out, really isn’t the issue, it’s the lack of TV that is caused by it. We talk about reading; he had a book out from the library. I don’t really have anything though. And it is way too early to actually go to bed and sleep.

Probably about 10 minutes passes and we pick the reading option. At least the bedroom still has half working power. We both curl up in the bed grab a couple of books to read, get under the blankets, open to the first page and the power goes out completely again!!

I just burst out laughing, this was too much, anytime we tried to do something, a lack of power interfered. Rob got upset, only three words into the book and we were thwarted again.

Fortunately, power came back almost right away. YAY, now we could watch TV. It was just a weird night, with funny things happening.