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Sitting in the dark
A rather horrendous line of storms swept through the greater DC area around 6 PM EST or so. It was brief, but the winds were remarkable and the downpour was more than the storm drains could handle in our neighbourhood. After much flickering through the duration of the tempest, the power here finally failed as the storm continued moving east.
In a brief walk around our neighbourhood, there's extensive tree damage; I pulled several large downed limbs out of the street. One neighbour's car has been hit by the leafy end of a large limb but I couldn't tell immediately if there were any scratches or damage to the car itself. We have a number of large branches in our back yard from trees across the street but no damage to our property. Mercifully, the frightful heat & humidity (heat index approaching 110) of the past week has finally broken.
It's times like this that I realize how infrequently I plug in most of my laptops. Both Toshibas have dead batteries, but at least the HP I use for square dance calling has a full charge thanks to last night's open house in Baltimore. The UPS is keeping the DSL modem & wireless router functioning but the Linux box and iMac are down to preserve the UPS' battery.
There's so much I wanted to get done tonight but it looks like I'll have to start working on my stack of back issues of Harper's, reading by candle-light.
Of course, I could put the car in the garage and connect the power inverter to the cigarette lighter...
Nah, I'll read.
In a brief walk around our neighbourhood, there's extensive tree damage; I pulled several large downed limbs out of the street. One neighbour's car has been hit by the leafy end of a large limb but I couldn't tell immediately if there were any scratches or damage to the car itself. We have a number of large branches in our back yard from trees across the street but no damage to our property. Mercifully, the frightful heat & humidity (heat index approaching 110) of the past week has finally broken.
It's times like this that I realize how infrequently I plug in most of my laptops. Both Toshibas have dead batteries, but at least the HP I use for square dance calling has a full charge thanks to last night's open house in Baltimore. The UPS is keeping the DSL modem & wireless router functioning but the Linux box and iMac are down to preserve the UPS' battery.
There's so much I wanted to get done tonight but it looks like I'll have to start working on my stack of back issues of Harper's, reading by candle-light.
Of course, I could put the car in the garage and connect the power inverter to the cigarette lighter...
Nah, I'll read.