Our local power utility has determined that the best way to shore up their accounting in recent years is to defer maintenance and refuse to clear vegetation & trees from power lines. (Another one of their tactics is to not replace failed street lighting.) If there's a strong wind anywhere, the power flickers and there may be outages of a few seconds. Battery back-ups have shield my primary computers against those minor interruptions but it's still a pain in the ass to reset the timers on the microwave, the VCR, the stove, etc.. This is the first significant outage in a few years and I can't really blame PEPCO for the outages caused by Hurricane Isabelle.
I can think of other things to do in the dark, but (a) it's still too hot & humid to move, and (b) Kent was at a reheasal downtown.
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:24 pm (UTC)I can think of other things to do in the dark, but (a) it's still too hot & humid to move, and (b) Kent was at a reheasal downtown.