I have power!
Jul. 24th, 2006 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechI got back from the SDCC last night, rescued the pooch from the dog-gulag and went for the usual walk. Hot. Humid. When we got back, I fled for home and airconditioning and sleep...only to find darkness. According to the neighbors, the power had been out since 6pm.
The strange thing: it was actually a "brown-out". I've experienced brown-outs where the lights/power dips for a few seconds and then comes back up, but this was different: the power coming into the house was only a trickle-- just enough to run the led-clocks. If you turned on a light, it gave off about the same light as a single candle. But nothing large would power up (TV, computer, 'fridge, etc.). Very surreal: no power to do anything, but enough to be teased by.
The house was stifling: even with all the doors and windows wide open, it was like a stifling sauna-- humid, thick and hot. Even the cold water in the shower is uncomfortably warm (not even "tepid"-- actually warm!). The power finally came on about noon and I lasted about forty minutes before I gave in and turned on the AC for a little while. I'm told it got up to 115 locally...and was still in the high 80's after midnight (with about 60% humidity).
One thing I was reminded: the durability of a book: no power, no internet, no nothing this morning, but I could still pass time reading a book. Good ol' books!
Con report later...
PS: it's 6:30pm and still 101 degrees...
The strange thing: it was actually a "brown-out". I've experienced brown-outs where the lights/power dips for a few seconds and then comes back up, but this was different: the power coming into the house was only a trickle-- just enough to run the led-clocks. If you turned on a light, it gave off about the same light as a single candle. But nothing large would power up (TV, computer, 'fridge, etc.). Very surreal: no power to do anything, but enough to be teased by.
The house was stifling: even with all the doors and windows wide open, it was like a stifling sauna-- humid, thick and hot. Even the cold water in the shower is uncomfortably warm (not even "tepid"-- actually warm!). The power finally came on about noon and I lasted about forty minutes before I gave in and turned on the AC for a little while. I'm told it got up to 115 locally...and was still in the high 80's after midnight (with about 60% humidity).
One thing I was reminded: the durability of a book: no power, no internet, no nothing this morning, but I could still pass time reading a book. Good ol' books!
Con report later...
PS: it's 6:30pm and still 101 degrees...
