Well fortunately it only rained here in Charlotte last Friday. Friends and family in the triad and triangle had extended periods of no power. In fact my in laws just got power back this afternoon after losing it on Friday. It could have been worse...at least it wasn't bitterly cold like it tends to be following big ice storms. In December 2002 while living in Raleigh we had a bad ice storm resulting in the loss of power for a couple days. The highlight of that experience was sleeping with a sweatshirt wrapped around my head. Mother Nature can't be stopped sometimes and you can't blame the power companies for the slow response. I think it take a lot of work to turn the lights back on for a quarter million people. They mobilize hundreds of workers and work 24/7. I hope some day the majority and not minority of power lines will be buried and not hanging out there exposed to the weather and underneath limbs. So the power companies react in force to a large scale outage but they have other issues. I blame the power companies for something that has been in the news lately. I will save that rant for later this week.
Until tomorrow
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