Fey – no big deal
I got the shutters up well before the bad weather
I left work 90 minutes early yesterday so I could get home and put up storm shutters before the heavy rain started.
There was a very light rain the whole time which didn’t bother me. Except when I was standing some place where rain was pouring off the roof right on to my back… that was a little annoying. It took me an hour and fourty minutes to get them up. And the heavy rains? They took much longer.
I really wasn’t unitl 4:30 this morning that things got interesting. The wind picked up but I didn’t see any thunderstorms or lightning. We would loose power every few minutes. It was getting almost comical. The power would go out - our generator would come on – regular power would come back on a minute or two later – generator would stay on for another minute then shut it’s self off – another few minutes later the
Not much happening at 2 a.m.
power would go off again and the cycle would repeat. This when on for maybe 20 – 30 minutes. I was starting to worry about the generator being cycled like that so many times. Around 4am we lost power ‘for good’, you could say; until about 11am this morning.
As with the last storm we had, each time we would loose power I would see a flash of blue light fill the sky directly to the east. From somewhere on the other side of the trees at the end of my street. I tried to get some pictures of it but it is almost impossible to time it right. I guess I would have to be continuously taking pictures until it happened and just save the ones that caught it.
With the power out and nothing much happening but unimpressive wind and rain I went to sleep. Even though the generator was running I had unplugged my TV and computers just to be safe. I didn’t want to loose anything to a power spike.
I didn’t wake up until a little after 10am. The generator was still running but the storm was basically over. There was only slight winds and light rain. After a little yogurt for breakfast and half a banana I started taking down the shutters. By 12:30 I had the shutters down and everything cleaned up.
I was surprised to find we had mail delivered today. Those guys really are not stopped by much.
I think I’ll take a ride and see what’s open and not.