Blackout

Yesterday we were sitting at the doctor's office waiting for the flu vaccine when the lights went out. Seeing how the temperatures have been soaring higher and higher, and therefore people have been making their air conditioners soar higher and higher, I figured that it was just a simple brown out. We then left the office and drove through downtown, at around 4:00, and discovered that the lights were out there. Weird, I thought, to have a brown out in downtown during rush hour. We exited the highway and found police officers directing traffic. Hmmm....something strange is going on. I also didn't have any cell service and the radio was all crazy. I was starting to get nervous. I arrived home to find that we also had no power and a fire in the distance. Needing to find out exactly what was going on I grabbed my phone and tried to get on local sites. No connection. Finally I was able to get on Facebook and friends from Connecticut let me know what was going on, a transmission line in the desert failed.

We soon learned that power was not going to be restored until Friday night, a full 24 hours. We went to our storage room and grabbed all the candles. head lamps and camping lanterns that we have. School was canceled for today, ice cream was melting so HAD to be eaten, and neighbors were outside chatting with each other. While no planes were flying in, so Brady was stuck in San Francisco for another night, the sky was filled with stars, something we don't see very often here. It was really a lovely calm night, and everyone was content without power. Then, at 10:30 pm, the lights came back on and all was well and good again. 

Although the lights were back on, school was already canceled, so we had today off. We decided to continue calm from the night before and spend the day fishing at Quail Gardens.