A little taste of New York in Dallas today

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

The power went off at about 8am, and stayed off. Not the entire neighborhood, of course, just our little isolated block of castles.

It stayed off until 4:30pm! Auugghhh!! Just long enough to bleed all the cold air from the fridge and freezer, thus threatening a whole bunch of munchables with disgusting disintigration. This sucks, sez I, as I call the power company to whine about our misfortune-- the call took place at about 2pm (so I was busy all morning). I got a robot who promised me faithfully a REAL HUMAN would return my call promptly.

Yeah. Right.

The one funny coinkidink I can't quite assimilate is: Almost ten minutes to the tick after the power finally flickered back into our copper conduits, the REAL HUMAN called, asking if someone at this number had reported a power outage. Yeah, sez I, thanks for the promptness, but you're a putz and it's 8.5 hours TOO LATE.

*sigh*

It's a very good thing I had lots to do in town, and was able to spend the day either in an air-conditioned auto, or a power-filled, air-conditioned somewhere else, while my humble abode cooked and melted.

And dammit, I bet my waterbed is too cold to climb into now! --On second thought, that might actually feel GOOD...

[MuseRider]

1. I have been so

preoccupied with our raging temps and no rain that I have paid no attention to the weather anywhere else. I almost always figure if we are hot you guys have it worse. My sympathies, I have been living in fear of the electricity going out with triple digit temps (not for me but for my livestock, can't pump water without electricity). A nice cold waterbed should be pretty nice.