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What a week!
On Tuesday we had thunderstorms move through all day. About 8:30 p.m. we lost power, along with most of the city. Mr. Dollycas and I whipped out our Kindles and read while we listened to the wind, rain, and the tornado sirens. You see, we are the type of people that usually go outside to look at the sky rather than try to get our disabled selves to the basement. Before he went to bed he took a quick look outside, saw some leaves scattered in the driveway but that was all.
Then at 2:11 a.m. (I looked at my phone) I was awakened by a strange noise. I made my way to the kitchen door to see flashing lights and 3 utility trucks in our driveway. The strange noise was chainsaws. Our neighbor had a huge tree that may have been struck by lightning because it split. Part went on their roof and the other half fell into a power pole in their backyard. When their power pole fell the wires pulled on our power pole breaking it off about 3/4 up and the piece got tangled in a tree right next to our driveway. The crews worked all night and the next day cutting trees and branches, pulling out our power pole, removing the neighbors, putting in new poles, and running new power lines. Water and Light employees from nearby towns, including our home town brought their trucks and equipment to help. I was surprised to see my nephew and his crew in our neighbor’s yard. Our power was restored at about 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon.
We were pleased to see that the city had Spectrum on standby to get those services back. About two hours later we thought we were good to go but the technician did a shoddy job. Instead of running new lines like everyone expected he just spliced the cut lines. Our internet and cable kept dropping all night making us reboot the system. Thursday it was more of the same and so frustrating. After our early morning call to Spectrum on Friday a wonderful tech arrived about 90 minutes later. He was not happy about what the previous tech had done at all. He quickly ran two new lines so that we are no longer sharing with our upstairs neighbors. (The issue we had been having for over a year.) He ran new wiring from the outside box to the box in the basement. Then he took the time to check out all our equipment, the modem, the router, each cable box and television, and even adding new wiring so that our computers run better, (taking out the splice which was done after we moved here). He even took time to set up my television remote to make it easier for me.
So I lost quite a bit of computer time last week. I had to move the review I intended to post on Thursday, Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scones by Sarah Graves to this week Friday and I will be using today and the holiday tomorrow to catch up on several things.
Remi’s first baseball game of the season was canceled Wednesday night because the fields were flooded so we stayed in town to watch Thomas play again. He does so well and can really hit that ball and run those bases. His fielding improves every inning. All the boys do a great job being just 6 and 7. They only play 4 innings and usually, everyone gets to bat every inning. They are so much fun to watch and the time passes so fast. After two crazy days, sitting in the park with Son #2 and his family was just what we needed.
This little peanut, granddaughter Athena, had fun at the game too.
I forgot to share last week. Charlotte had her school field trip. My dad was a fire chief and Mr. Dollycas was a firefighter when our kids were small so this picture touched my heart. They had a ton of fun things for the kids to do at the children’s museum and her mom took lots of great pictures.
How was your week?
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Enjoy the long weekend!
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Oh my goodness – WHAT an adventure. Though I’m so glad you had previous shoddy work corrected and it now sounds as though your internet and general connectivity should be a whole lot better. The pics of your grandchildren are lovely! Have a more peaceful week!
Those storms sound awful! I’m glad that the second technician was able to not only fix the problem but to make things much, much better.
Your grandkids offered delight and joy during this difficult time.
That’s a lot of weather-related drama. I’m glad things got fixed up for you.
Well! You certainly had an eventful week!
TG all are well and your situation has been greatly improved, tech wise, too.
What a dramatic week! We are so lucky here in South East England. Whilst we do live near areas that flood, we have never personally been affected and thunderstorms are rare. When we do have power cuts it is hard to explain to my son that we can’t have the TV on or anything electrical!
Have a good week next week.
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Thats sounds a bit scary luckily we had branches down at the park and one time we had a huge tree fall in the alley but it not been to bad. We did have one year were the power went out for the whole town over night that was very creepy. Hope you have a great week.