sholio | Let's ring in the new year with a countywide power outage!

I'm going to be scarce online for a few days because we're in the middle of an extended power outage - going on 30 hours now, likely to last until Wednesday (if we're lucky) or more realistically Thursday or later. We have a generator, but are running it intermittently to save fuel and also to save wear on the generator, since a replacement can't be had in this town right now for love or money. The entire area had a blizzard and ice storm this weekend, so there are widespread outages and ones like ours - a single-household outage caused by a storm-related blown fuse on our power pole - are understandably at the bottom of their priority list. (Honestly I have nothing but praise for our power company. They have always been excellent with communication, easy to get hold of, rarely have extended outages despite having to deal with some of the worst winter weather around, and are normally very fast to respond to outage reports. They're overwhelmed right now for reasons beyond their control.)

Meanwhile, we're doing fine. We have lots of food and a generator that's capable of powering the household essentials (heat, fridge, device recharging, etc), and we can go to town for anything we need - or even move into a hotel or AirBnB if it really comes to that, though we're hoping not to have to.

However, I only have laptop internet when the generator is running and otherwise I'm on my phone, so I'll be slow responding to emails, comments and the like.

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Yikes!!! Stay warm, and my fingers are crossed for your power to come back on soon.

Stay safe and warm!!

Bloody hell :( Good luck! See you on the other side >.

It must make a big difference to have a trustworthy power company and know they'll get to you as soon as they can! I hope they live up to that and get things back on track ASAP.

GOOD LUCK! I am glad you have heat and devices!

Oh no! I hope it gets sorted for you quickly.

Hope y'all stay warm and the power comes back on more quickly than expected.

Stay safe ♥

Oh no! That's not fun at all. I hope they end up able to fix it sooner than expected.

Stay warm! *hugs*

Oh boy! Well, stay warm and safe and see you on the other side!

Best of luck with your winter adventure!

Oh my! wishing you all the best as you deal with this!!

I hope you get through this with minimal issues!

Stay warm! Also, let me know if there's anything I can do for you from here - our driveway is completely shut down until the loader gets here, but we've got power and Internet again at least.