Power outages are fun!

Last night I was sitting around waiting for 1 (so I could watch the ep of Enterprise I was taping) and about 10 minutes before 1 the power went bye-bye. I called the powerline and the recording said it'd be back up at 5 AM. I didn't really have much to do but I knew they usually overstated the time it'd take so I left my light switch on and went to bed (the idea being that the light coming on would wake me and if it wasn't too late I could watch Superfriends). That didn't work out so well though as we ended up not getting the power back until 8 or 9 PM.

During the rather boring day of sitting around the house (didn't even have any unread books lying around) we heard the press release from Nova Scotia Power. They said they expected more damage to occur up to and including overnight Sunday and that it could be the end of the week before power is restored to some areas.

We have infloor heating which means there are pipes of water under the floors. My dad got worried that it'd cause a lot of problems if the lack of heat having lead to those freezing so he went out and bought a generator (something he'd been thinking on buying for a while apparently). Then he had to wait almost an hour to get gas for it in Pictou (only one gas station was open in Pictou and apparently very few elsewhere in Pictou County). And when they arrived home they found out that the power had come back on.

The upside is that the next time there's a power outage we'll be sitting pretty. It's a pretty high-end generator so there'll be lots of juice to go around.

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