Power Outages Suck!

I haven't been on a computer in 3 days. We had a huge storm move through very quickly Thursday afternoon and leave in its wake many downed trees, alot of debris and widespread power outages -- including ours. A tornado was reported to the southeast of us and I think there was a wind shear, because our neighbors across the street had 4 trees and/or their larger branches sliced off at exactly the same height.

Our power was out from 3:35 Thursday afternoon until about 4:00 today (Sunday).

Here's what I learned from the 3-day experience:

Living without electricity, telephones, refrigerator (you can't open it, in order to save the cold) or water (NO TOILETS!) really sucks!

Detroit Edison doesn't give realistic time estimates for repair

Detroit Edison never tells the caller what happened or why the power is still out

There are lots of people in Meijer at 12:30 on Friday night (especially when Harry Potter is released)

One cannot find gallon jugs of water anywhere when there are power outages

It takes 25 bottles of water to fill the holding tank on a toilet

If one eats enough junk food in a 3 day period, one gets sick of it

There is a God and He has a sense of humor -- Jim left on a golf outing early Friday morning and is getting back tonight and missed the whole thing!

Thanks for visiting!