Sitting in the Dark

No rain for a month and a half and now we have had big rain multiple days in a row. This afternoon we had a deluge. Wednesday when I was driving home from the beach I drove through that kind of rain you can’t see through. I put my flashers on and slowed down, but not to the five MPH that some people did. People, if you are afraid to drive in big rain, please pull your car off to the side of the road. I don’t want someone to rear end you because they didn’t see you until it was too late.

Today I was home doing some deep cleaning. That means I polished TV screens until they gleamed. I had he robot vacuum running from room to room as Shay watched me use a q-tip in the crevices of baseboards. Trust me, it’s satisfying, even if it uses a bunch of Q-tips.

As the robot was running around the sunroom and I was picking up dog toys, I heard a pop. The electricity went out. The rain was coming down so hard that I could not hear all my many neighbor’s generators come on.

Thankfully the robot was able to keep cleaning until the battery ran down. I decided it was too dark to continue my baseboard work. Shay headed me up to her home base, our bed. She feels safest there, but she really shouldn’t since it is on the top floor.

It wasn’t that windy so I was not worried about a tree coming down on the house. My phone was at 50% and my iPad 68% so I opted to play a game on my iPad that did not need connectivity. Without power our signal booster is out so we get the pitiful one bar and no WiFi.

Duke Energy texted they knew the power was out and predicted it would come back by 6:30. We shall see.

At least we are filling up the ground water. It is going to rain some everyday this week. I guess I need to be charging everything at all times. Especially the vacuum.

Post Script: I wrote this while the power was out. I got a two texts at the same time at 6:19. The first one said the power would be back on at 9:45. The second one said the power was back on. Since I didn’t have any lights on when the power went out I didn’t notice it was back on. Thank goodness the first text was wrong.