Electricity

[lillilah]

A few nights ago, we had a huge wind storm here. It was way more severe than usual, tearing the roofs off houses and flipping over cars up north. Anyway, our power went out, as did the power of about a million others. The day before yesterday, it was out for most of the day. Yesterday, we has power, but it went out quite a few times. So, there has been a bit of drama here. However, I'm starting to do better, finally. I'm over the stomach problems of the dog bite and antibiotics, and while I still have a big swollen area on my leg that is healing from the bite, it really doesn't impact my ability to do stuff. I'm less moody, anxious, and tired. Thank goodness. Hopefully, that will continue.

Comments

[soemand]

Is your power outage mitigations working?

[lillilah]

In general, yes. We need to get my husband's camp stove working, which he will do soon, but the vast majority of the time, it wouldn't have been needed. I just need to remember that as the climate gets more screwed up, this will become more common. I also need to plan for each outage to be about 12-20 hours long. That is helpful.

[soemand]

The Canadian rule is 72 hours. That was needed at home for Juan and white Juan; longer than that the emergency centres operate like during the 1998 ice storm.