22 Hours

We had a narrow band of very intense thunderstorms come through on Friday evening. Talk about the calm before the storm? It was silent until it sounded like an Air National Guard C -130 was landing at the airport. It was the straight line wind approaching through the trees, along with the black sky that produced torrential rain. I knew we would lose power with this storm and as Dave and I grabbed flashlights, the lights went out. The storm only lasted for 15 minutes but caused huge power outages throughout the area. We went to bed thinking it would come back on, but at 6 AM, no luck. Dave got our portable generator going and it ran for another 7 hours, off for 5 hours and back on for a couple more before service was restored 22 hours later (we had just restocked the empty fridge and needed the well pump to go on too). My cousin Chuck was without power for at least 36 hours and I read that there are still 5000 homes without service in NY. Gee, I feel like we are back in the Bahamas. At least Bahamas Power and Light apologizes and thanks us for our patience. Here on the Grid's website they give you a map of outages and say assessing condition with no assisgned crew...for 20 of those 22 hours. This must be what it is like after a hurricane though, with so many different places to check out with tree damage to lines. It's probably our fault for bringing the power issues with us from the Bahamas.😉 At least we brought warmer weather too!