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Sep. 4th, 2010 10:30 pmHurricane Earl whooshed through town earlier today leaving a mess of downed tree branches and power outages in its wake. It didn't feel so bad to me but that's because i'm in a brick apartment building and the wind wasn't buffeting my side of the building. I can certainly see the wind and rain outside but it didn't feel so bad from inside. However, there were a lot of power outages and a lot of trees and branches down. The weather was pretty wild for awhile. My power only flickered a couple of times and by about 2:30 i thought i was home free. The storm had passed, the rain had stopped, the skies were sort of clearing. Still a bit of wind but it was over for all intents and purposes.
And then my power went out.
Bastard.
And it wasn't just a flicker this time so i decided to go have a little nap. I'd be up since 7:30 so i drifted off for a couple of hours but by 5:30 and 6 it still was out. I made a sandwich and had a drink and lit a candle in the windowless kitchen. And though i did have a magazine, i was still bored and the apartment wasn't cooled down a whole lot. Turns out my mom had power and a cool breeze so i decided to come out here for the night. Cool breeze, lights, internet, company, no brainer! Especially the cool breeze! The power company line said my area probably won't have the power restored until tomorrow morning. It may be on earlier but they're not going to say that. They probably gave the same estimated time for everyone that calls!
I followed the hurricane coverage mainly through the Haligonia.ca feeds on facebook and twitter and on their website. They did a good job of pooling all the information in one place. It's funny, hurricane season starts in the late spring but we only seem to get the worst storms in the fall. Hurricane Juan was the end of September. this wasn't nearly as bad as that one was, it was only just a hurricane category 1 and often it was only a strong tropical storm. They determine it by the speed of the wind. Juan was a 1 but the damage it wreaked was like a 2 or even a 3. It sure sounded worse too. One thing i did notice is that there was no thunder and lightning, not at my end of the city at least. That's unusual. Juan was crashing and banging and flashing for an hour or more.
And then my power went out.
Bastard.
And it wasn't just a flicker this time so i decided to go have a little nap. I'd be up since 7:30 so i drifted off for a couple of hours but by 5:30 and 6 it still was out. I made a sandwich and had a drink and lit a candle in the windowless kitchen. And though i did have a magazine, i was still bored and the apartment wasn't cooled down a whole lot. Turns out my mom had power and a cool breeze so i decided to come out here for the night. Cool breeze, lights, internet, company, no brainer! Especially the cool breeze! The power company line said my area probably won't have the power restored until tomorrow morning. It may be on earlier but they're not going to say that. They probably gave the same estimated time for everyone that calls!
I followed the hurricane coverage mainly through the Haligonia.ca feeds on facebook and twitter and on their website. They did a good job of pooling all the information in one place. It's funny, hurricane season starts in the late spring but we only seem to get the worst storms in the fall. Hurricane Juan was the end of September. this wasn't nearly as bad as that one was, it was only just a hurricane category 1 and often it was only a strong tropical storm. They determine it by the speed of the wind. Juan was a 1 but the damage it wreaked was like a 2 or even a 3. It sure sounded worse too. One thing i did notice is that there was no thunder and lightning, not at my end of the city at least. That's unusual. Juan was crashing and banging and flashing for an hour or more.
