Well – its Saturday evening and after OPM gave federal Employees (and thus, Contractors like me) 2 days off, we came through the storm remarkably well!
I spent 2 days clearing loose stuff from the yard, planting the remaining hanging baskets at the front door, packing up all the tools and loose parts on the back porch, freezing bottles of spring water, and in general, storm proofing as best I could. The TV news showed ever expanding storm pictures, scarey spiral clouds and vortices as seen from space, and we had gusty winds that were loud and made the trees move like wet spaghetti. ’round midnight Thursday, there was a bang, then a series of bangs as transformers sequentially blew all over the neighborhood – and we were in darkness. Friday we woke up and made coffee the old fashion way – boil a saucepan full of water, then pour it through the filter in the coffeemaker. Its slow, its tedious, but – a fine cuppa!
Anyway – we looked around and all of our trees were still standing! Lots of leaves and some branches on the ground, but the house was intact! Spent the day Friday raking leaves and hauling branches to the curb.
After Noon, Emma took the 2000 Civic Si and headed to Media, PA for a retreat she was leading … Storms may come and go, but Congregational Care is for every church!

Anyway – here’s why we lost power Thursday night …
they got it fixed 24 hours later!

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