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| | We've been having icy rain for 24 or so hours now. Our power was out when we woke up this morning. Andrew was pretty cute, he came into our room and said, "Mommy, please come help me turn on the light." As in "obviously I'm not doing it right, you do it." He sounded so frustrated, and refused to believe that my fingers didn't have the magic for it this morning, either. School was canceled for power outages, and is again tomorrow. When Nate heard that there was no school today, he asked if we could stay home and watch TV. Ummm, no. The TV needs electricity, dear. I got a call at work mid-afternoon from Daycare's Asst. Honcho, saying that they'd been down for almost 2 hours, and could I please come get my kids before dark?  They were fine for now, with daylight and body heat, but when it started getting dark and colder, they didn't hold out as much hope for the sanity of the place, apparently. I told her I'd see what I could do. I told the bosses, and then got this mental image of a whole building full of panicky little kids and the adults trying to keep a lid on them all. We all got a chuckle out of that, and then started talking about how we're in about the oldest part of downtown, so we probably wouldn't lose power. That there's a (according to Mr. Boss, THE) substation less than 6 blocks away, more like 3 as a bird flies. He said, "If we lose our electricity, we can guess that all of town is down." As he sat there at his desk gloating, we got a very ominous dimming of the lights and about 2 seconds of pure darkness. A nervous laugh floated around the room, and Mrs. Boss looked up as if to say, "Don't you dare go off on me, you stupid lights, I'm BUSY here." I continued on my work, somewhat grateful that I wasn't working with anything electric-powered then. (We did hear noise from one of the guys upstairs who was using power tools at the time of the flicker.) Maybe 2 minutes later, There It Went. We all stood around like idiots for a moment or two, and then Mr. Boss started barking orders. "Make sure the dock door is closed, lock the front door, bring in the money, we're going home." A went and checked the dock door, which is an overhead door, and Huge. We were glad it was closed and we didn't have to mess with the release mechanism. I locked the front door, turned the closed sign, and started flipping light switches, although it felt kinda silly, since they weren't making any difference. Mrs. Boss told Mr. Boss to find the flashlight on the shelf behind him. He grabbed it and started waving it around as if he could just scatter a handful of light to each of us or something. She grabbed it from him and started upstairs to help the guys find all their switches. Upstairs has space heaters, light switches, breakers, power tool switches, bla bla bla to turn off. Once again: Glad I wasn't using any power tools! A grabbed the money from the cash drawer and stuffed it into the lock box while I flipped the remainder of the light switches, back in a DARK corner of the building, lemmetellya. We all got to write ourselves out at 4:30 and go home. I am a terrible person and laughed all the way to daycare. I grabbed my kiddos, and had to giggle at the dumb look on Nate's face when he went to clock himself out on the computer at the front desk. "Sweetie, the computer won't work without electricity." He was quite perturbed. We came home and surprised my husband, who decided that it was book time. Three of us curled up on the couch with books, while Andrew played on the floor with a tractor and christmas tree beads that haven't yet made it into the decorations box. It had just gotten too dark out to read (which didn't stop Nate, of course) when the lights came back on.  and I decided we didn't have to have PB&J sandwiches after all, although that's what the kids got (hey, they begged for them.) We had toasted cheese sandwiches and alphabet soup. Nummy. The worst thing that happened to me out of this whole thing was that I had an unsaved WordPad open on my desktop. Whoopee, it was mostly cut n pasted from elsewhere, with little else in it. Oh, and I didn't get my shower until lunch time, when we had a brief window of power at home. I think that's not a bad outcome.  | | | Posted 1/30/2002 10:53 PM - 1 view - 0 comments
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