OT: Blackout

[Guest guest]

Happy Hump Day Folks

 

We had a blackout here last night for several hours. Actually we had

several small quick blackouts yesterday but then last night the power

just went off, and stayed off ... it must've come back on some time in

the middle of the night.

 

So, this is a friendly public service reminder .. always be sure to have

your house stocked with a flashlight (with working batteries

), candles, incendiary devices (matches, working lighters), a battery

powered clock, a small battery powered radio can be helpful too - oh and

its good to have at least one phone with a cord (amazingly they work in

blackouts, cordless phones don't since they use a home base that has to

be " plugged in " to work).

 

OH, and don't forget to always save everything you are doing on the

computer and save it often. I would have been really tee'd off if I had

just done a whole bunch of work that I didn't save and then lost the power!

 

Ya never know when the lights are going out and when they are coming

back, so it is a good thing to be prepared.

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

[Guest guest]

Hiya Pat,

 

At some point in the 7PM hour the lights flickered about 5 or 6 times

and then they were gone, so instead of sitting home with the kids bored

silly and nothing to do we ended up going to Target on the other end of

Sugar Land, where the electricity was still on. When we got back home a

bunch of the area did have power but our subdivision was still out, so I

put the kids to bed and when we woke up in the morning we had

electricity again.

 

At least I had an excuse to use all these candles I have around here

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

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Pat [eveningsongsoaps]

 

 

Chris, When we arrived home shortly after dark, our house was dark

also. Power came back on in wee hours of morning. How about you?

Pat