We... Have... The... Oh, No, I Guess We Don't

[gnomi]

At 3:35 PM this afternoon, we bid a fond adieu to mabfan's brother, who was in from Oregon.

At just about 4:00, the skies absolutely opened.

At 4:08, the lights went off.

At approximately 4:30, NSTAR called to tell us that our power would be back around 6 PM.

It wasn't.

At 7:10, NSTAR called to tell us our power was back on.

It wasn't.

At 8:00, we went up the hill to chez arib and wife to borrow a cup of power to charge our cell phones.

At 9:15 or so, arib called our home number to see if our answering machine would answer, indicating the return of our power.

It didn't.

At 9:40, we headed home. The power was still off on our block, but we saw the crews working to restore our power and stopped to ask the crews about their progress. The tree that had taken out our power had been removed from the power line and the NSTAR guys were about to look for the damage.

At 9:50, we arrived home and mabfan started a very late bedtime process for Muffin and Squeaker, while I brought in the baby gear. And just as I was bringing in the last of the stuff, at 10:02, the power came on.

Comments

[sorek.livejournal.com]

I only lost power for about 15 seconds, long enough for my cable to lose its tv guide settings and my computer to go "bleah?" on restart. It seems ok though. Your location seems to have power issues frequently.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Not too often. We lost power a couple of weeks ago due to "animal interference" that blew out a transformer. And last night a tree fell on the line. Neither time was anything that NSTAR could do anything to prevent, honestly.