Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Power outages

Today is my second day off school as a result of the power outages. On Sunday we had a huge wind storm. No rain, just wind...it was weird. Sustained winds of 40mph with gusts up to 76 mph. We were lucky and didn't have any significant damage. Some branches down in the yard, stuff on the deck was blown all over, but everything is back in order now. The power went out sometime on Sunday (I was at my parent's watching football). It came back on about 2:30 yesterday. My parent's power came back on at 4:30 this morning. Apparently 90% of the city lost electricity. Duke energy had sent some crew down to Huston to help out with things there, so they started out a bit shorthanded. They recalled some of those crews and brought in help from South Carolina. Almost all the schools in the area have been closed yesterday and today because they don't have power, or the power outage affected the food supply or the bus fuel.