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Tag Archives: Electricity failure
A Curveball
Today, life was unfolding in its usual fashion. I was working and on a Skype call when at about 10-45am, blip, my main monitor died and Skype froze. The electricity was off. We went outside where there has been much … Continue reading
Go With The Flow Monday
Sometimes you should look at the scraps of paper that land in your mailbox. Every time I checked the post box over the last week there was a rolled up piece of paper. Presuming it be spam, I left it … Continue reading
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Nothing is as Easy as it Looks
There is a saying that I first heard on 4th December 1987. I was in labour with Stacey and Mike was diligently by my side. Whiling away the time, he was reading a Reader’s Digest and at the bottom of … Continue reading
33 Hours Without Electricity!
4-12pm We slept like logs last night. When I woke up this morning and looked at my cell phone, I was amazed to find it was 10 to 8. That was a good sleep. Still without power, I turned on … Continue reading
Epic Sunday Fail
3-27pm What a crazy morning! Mike woke up at about 6-15am and asked if we had run out of electricity because the power was off. I know that a few days ago we had 150 units so we shouldn’t have … Continue reading