It’s been an interesting day. There were over half a million people without power in the Ohio valley today, 300,000 in my immediate area. They’re saying some people can expect to be out of power for a week or more while they get everything restored. My sister called me around 1:30 this afternoon to tell me her power had just come back on. My workplace was out of power, which is not good when you have a few hundred kids running around. They canceled school and sent the kids home. I worked until the middle of the afternoon catching up on filing until my boss said enough was enough and sent me home. I spent a couple of hours cleaning up our front yard, and we got most of the bigger stuff out of the back. I also talked for a bit with the man who lives across the street and heard some interesting stories about the previous owners of our house, including the story of why our front light post is crooked. We really did make out good, all things considered. No power loss, no major damage to our trees, no house damage that I’ve seen on our street–or heard about, and believe me, if there was I would have heard it from the lady across the street.
Probably needless to say, my bike class was canceled for the week and the framing inspector didn’t show up. We should get bumped to tomorrow’s list, but it sucks for Firefly because she couldn’t really sleep today waiting to see if they showed and thinking about the after effects of the storm. Hopefully they come tomorrow, and early so she can get some rest.
