[GH85Carrera]

Yesterday afternoon about 3:00 PM the rain was still falling lightly, it was 64 degrees, the power went out. Back on, back off, one more time, then off. I got an email from the power company telling me there was an outage and it may affect me. As I was without power, I think it did. They estimated it would be back on in 15 minutes. They missed that estimate, and 10 minutes later they send a second email, and estimated another 2 hours. So I started shutting down my electronics on the four battery backups I use, except the router and modem. so we had internet. That UPS is older, and the battery started at 70 minutes of runtime, but started dropping to much less quickly. When it got to 10 minutes, I shut it down. We were left with only cell phones to entertain us. No need for heat or air, and the windows were providing plenty of light.

It was the perfect opportunity to rearrange the UPS that powers the security, DVR, and the cable TV DVR, and my TV and amp. I got that done, and about then, way before their estimate, the power came on. I guess the first estimate was pure "male optimism" as my wife calls it. The second estimate was someone that was a Star Trek fan and learned from Scotty, always estimate twice as long as you really think, and no one complains when you fix it way faster.

Power was back on about 4:30 for good. If ya gotta have a power outage, it was a good time for it.

I don't know if it was a driver crashing into a power pole, or a lightning strike. They were on it very fast, and got us back up in reasonable time, and they sent several emails to let me know what was happening.