We have power of sorts. If we conserve our use of power, we seem to do all right. Tomorrow (We hope!) the power company will try to find the bad spot in the line and do a temporary repair, and sometime soon, we will have to hire an electrician to trench, lay down a pipe, and the power company will run a whole new line through it.
Thank you all for your concern, and thank you for putting up with Mrs. Grinch today.
oh! good to know that you are beginning to have some power, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteGrandmere, the storm that left you some snow is now supposed to be headed this way.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you had such a rough and cold day. Will your neighbor's insurance pay for your electric disaster? Just wondering.
I hope and pray that you are warm and running all the lights. Just for fun. And that somehow they are all plugged in to your neighbor's house! You know what I mean....
Diane, thanks.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, it happened maybe 15 years ago, and we didn't know that we'd continue to have problems.
This is the fourth or fifth time that the line has been repaired.
We let the same neighbor share our generator during one of the periods without power after a hurricane, and after he cut our line. He's cut our phone line three times and our cable line twice. I am not kidding.
Our generator is small, with just enough power to handle a couple of appliances and a light or two, but not a heating system - nothing that runs on a 220 line.
I hope that the storm is not a bad one, when it goes your way.
Good luck and stay warm
ReplyDeleteDang.... no chance on getting a new neighbor?
ReplyDeleteJust saw the news--and it looks like the storm has turned to ice and is staying east of the mountains....so far!
Do you live next door to an asylum?
ReplyDeleteIf not, bull whips and cattle prods are handy for keeping (brain dead) neighbors in-line... if you know what I mean.
Shotguns are at the extreme side of the scale. (my mothers preference)
The only bad part of this episode, Mimi, is that you just KNOW Crazy Arse is waking up . . . oh, any minute now, and will FEAST upon your sufferings (and suffer-no-BS 'tude)... ;-/
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Mimi, I hope you are getting a good night's sleep as we night owls leave you messages for tomorrow. I believe your neighbor was behind the door when the brains were passed out!(that's what my mother would say.)
ReplyDeleteWell, it seems that we are joining the bad weather club this weekend. Supposedly Seattle is to have the 'worst winter storm since December 1990' hit this weekend. We live on a steep hill and all of the power lines to our house are surrounded by trees.
ReplyDeleteI am not hopeful. And I spent all summer thinking that a woodburning stove would increase the resale value of the house. Never had one put in. The best ideas never get done, eh?
I'm gathering candles and flashlight batteries tomorrow. Wrapping the outside faucets, too.
Here is hoping that our neighborhood, your neighborhood, and everyone in our little online group stay warm and dry this weekend.
Good luck with the power!
I am so glad your power is back. Cuddling is good when it's cold (and rather nice at other times too).
ReplyDelete((((( GM & GP )))))
Do you live next door to an asylum?
ReplyDeleteDavid G., no comment.
JCF, the Mad One does not often read my blog. He left a comment the other day, so I'm not due for a visit for six months or so.
Dennis, I hope your storm is not too bad and that you can stay warm. David, too, if he's not traveling.
To top all this off, a reporter from the newspaper in a neighboring town is coming to interview me this morning for a feature called "Bons Amis" which runs in their Saturday edition. It seems that I'm an "interesting person". She found me through the Huffington Post article.
I'll be "coming out" as a local blogger. I've been flying under the radar, because few local people read my blog. Not that I make it a secret, but they're just not interested.
Mimi, so sorry to hear of your trials and tribulations with the elusive electrons. I hope it will be resolved soon. Snow in New Orleans? Wow! is that a surprise!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nightmare. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW, from what I understand, Entergy stinks.
Well, to you be the power, and the glory -- if not for ever at least through the cold spell!
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T
Entergy stinks. They don't want to repair the line. See recent post.
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