Power out at home, but not work

[dvandom]

Campus seems to have only suffered a blip, since everything turned off but the network was still up and I didn't have to reprogram my radio's presets. But power went off around 6AM or so at home, and is still off. Once I felt it was safe to drive (i.e. about 4:30 PM) I came in to have dinner. My car is now a rolling fridge. A more complete bloggy accounting once things are over, I've been making notes on my PDA (but can't synch it at work).

Estimate when I called at 4PM: 1-2 days before I have power back at home. At least I can be reasonably sure of power at work tomorrow, and I have some leftover work-lunch stuff I can use up. The whole east side of town is also down, which means no Wal-Mart to pick up more food, and I'd be surprised if the stores nearer me are outside the blackout.

Anyway, I was warm enough at home under the covers and bundled up, I should be okay for one night. If the time to completion is more like 2 days, though, I may need to find someone to crash with, or go way out of town to a motel.

Update: according to the power company's outage map, the only parts of town that have power are campus and the southwest corner. Might be stopping by Target before going home, as I just called them, they have power. And may even have some batteries left, although I wouldn't bet on it.

Comments

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're ok. If the temperature permits, you can save a lot of your frozen and cold stuff by taking it outside, and putting it under a mound of collected ice and snow. Works well.

Though the time I did that in an apartment, I made a giant turtle out of all the ice on the landing and put my sodas and a gallon of milk in it. When I came outside later, I found that they had been joined by a lot of beer from my next-door neighbor who thought the idea was a good one and 'borrowed' some of my turtle-space.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

The rain pretty much killed the snow. There's just a thin layer of it under a hard candy shell...er, ice shell. Car should stay cold enough for most of the stuff, though.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

One other odd thing you can do to make life more comfortable is to fill the back tank of your toilet with ice and snow overnight In the morning, it should be flushable, so long as your apartment stays above freezing..

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Water's still running, at least. Just not HOT water.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

I thought you kept a fission reactor around for these kind of emergencies.

[liabrown]

Aargh, I hope you get power back soon. At least you were prepared!