Mom's Thoughts on Paradise

Yesterday was a perfectly ordinary day. The weather was sunny and nice, no thunderstorms whatsoever. So it was a bit surprising when our power went off at about 10:30 last night.

Maggie (the dog) didn’t much care for the situation. Although she’s not allowed in our bedroom, she took the sudden plunge into darkness as an excuse to “sneak” in and lay just inside the door. After a few minutes, she did the get up and turn around 3 times thing that dogs have to do, and moved in a few more feet.

At this point, I got a flashlight, found my reading glasses (as it’s impossible to read the phone book without them), and called LCUB. We’re the last house on the line and when power outages occur, we’ve always called LCUB, just to be sure that LCUB knows in case we’re the only house impacted. And that was the case last night – just our house was out!

After a while, LCUB called me back. It seems they were having trouble finding our house. They had chickened out before heading far enough down our road. I ended up going down to meet them to make sure they were in the right place.

Eventually, they checked the aboveground lines leading to our house and found nothing amiss. (The last bit of the power line runs underground). They then started to work on the transformer, which required multiple smacks with a sledge hammer to get it open. Which of course sent Maggie into a panic, what with their truck driving up, strange voices in the yard, flashlights waving around, and loud noises going on. It took them about 4 hours, but we’ve now got a nice, new shiny transformer and even more importantly, power (which translates to having AC and water).