Monday, August 01, 2005
Craptacular House II
Our electricity was not working for almost the entire weekend. Finally an electric company guy tested the breaker box and noticed something that I will tell you later. Logical thinkers out there...see if you can figure this out by the time I give you the answer.
Information:
- Two lines of 110 (equaling 220) come in to the house
- Roughly half of our power has been off and on for the last week
- None of our heavy duty appliances have been working
Got it yet? I'll give you more info if not
- None of our appliances using "220" are working
- 1/2 of our non-220 devices are working, the other 1/2 is not
Still no?
- The electric company guy tested the breaker box and found power on every other breaker switch.
Yep, you have it by now. One of the two 110 lines coming into the house was faulty. Bad connection at the pole (yay, no cost to us!). Anyway, on Saturday Kelly left me at home with no power, and took my keys and wallet. I was stranded and I thought I might be dying. Man it sucked. I mowed the lawn and rode my bike and whatnot, but knowing that I was STUCK doing that stuff made it completely not enjoyable.
Anyway, besides that I napped for about 7 extra hours over the weekend, yet somehow I'm still tired. ¶ 10:58 AM
Information:
- Two lines of 110 (equaling 220) come in to the house
- Roughly half of our power has been off and on for the last week
- None of our heavy duty appliances have been working
Got it yet? I'll give you more info if not
- None of our appliances using "220" are working
- 1/2 of our non-220 devices are working, the other 1/2 is not
Still no?
- The electric company guy tested the breaker box and found power on every other breaker switch.
Yep, you have it by now. One of the two 110 lines coming into the house was faulty. Bad connection at the pole (yay, no cost to us!). Anyway, on Saturday Kelly left me at home with no power, and took my keys and wallet. I was stranded and I thought I might be dying. Man it sucked. I mowed the lawn and rode my bike and whatnot, but knowing that I was STUCK doing that stuff made it completely not enjoyable.
Anyway, besides that I napped for about 7 extra hours over the weekend, yet somehow I'm still tired. ¶ 10:58 AM
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you make it sound like kelly meant to take your stuff, when you were the idiot you left your wallet in her car and gave her your keys that she forgot she had...the misfortune of you being stuck was your own and it humors me greatly. Oh, and I'm very glad that someone was able to figure out what went wrong with your electricity.
someone remind me to go "wallet fishing" in Jason's car the next time I see it...
# posted by 
: August 01, 2005 3:47 PM
: August 01, 2005 3:47 PM
weirdly enough, i like when the power goes out. u kindof get a taste of what life was like way back when...or what life could be like if we have a major blackout-august-like catastrophe again in the near future...but this is coming from the woman who wanted to go to amish country for her anniversary...
bek,
yeah, in a weird kind of way I kind of like simple power outages and catastrophic power outages, despite the problems they cause (I have a rather large aquarium with African Cichlids in them.. hmmm...)
then again, I also like it when it rains. How often does it rain? Even in Cleveland (and Seattle...etc) it's sunnier, or at least not raining, far more often than it is raining. I like the rain... the change...
yeah, in a weird kind of way I kind of like simple power outages and catastrophic power outages, despite the problems they cause (I have a rather large aquarium with African Cichlids in them.. hmmm...)
then again, I also like it when it rains. How often does it rain? Even in Cleveland (and Seattle...etc) it's sunnier, or at least not raining, far more often than it is raining. I like the rain... the change...
# posted by : August 01, 2005 5:41 PM
: August 01, 2005 5:41 PM
I *LOVED* the power outage a few Augusts ago, what a blast! I got to meet all kinds of neighbors and I experienced a true sense of community. People were sharing stuff, sort of like a massive potluck dinner. However, I liked that because I like people. My street, however, was a ghosttown while my power was out, making me utterly miserable.
By the way, I have only looked forward to rain once in the past 5 years...and that was 2 weeks ago when my grass was almost completely dead.
We were at a Eye Dr appt( from loss of vision form the rollerblading accident)that we had waited for for WEEKS and than 2 hours upon arrival ( Metro SUCKS) and they had dialated Josh's eye and the power went off, we weren't very happy to reschedule.
I formerly worked at Babies R Us and there was a huge busy season out of nowhere..we counted back the months and obviously lots of people were making babies that night=)
I formerly worked at Babies R Us and there was a huge busy season out of nowhere..we counted back the months and obviously lots of people were making babies that night=)
Bode,
Ok, well, I still have you on days of precip in cleveland versus days of no precip... 156 vs 209.
But to drill home the point, I guess, is minutes in a year when it's not raining versus minutes when it IS raining.... wonder what those figures would look like. ie, what percentage of your life have you spent in the rain?
also, have you noticed that when people know it's going to rain (and it seems everyone but me pays attention to the weather forecast) they all have umbrellas and rain-proof jackets and stuff? But in the movies, there's always some sort of carefree scene where the protagonist(s) weren't prepared for the rain? I guess I don't mind getting rained on. It's usually not going to hurt anything.
Ok, well, I still have you on days of precip in cleveland versus days of no precip... 156 vs 209.
But to drill home the point, I guess, is minutes in a year when it's not raining versus minutes when it IS raining.... wonder what those figures would look like. ie, what percentage of your life have you spent in the rain?
also, have you noticed that when people know it's going to rain (and it seems everyone but me pays attention to the weather forecast) they all have umbrellas and rain-proof jackets and stuff? But in the movies, there's always some sort of carefree scene where the protagonist(s) weren't prepared for the rain? I guess I don't mind getting rained on. It's usually not going to hurt anything.
# posted by : August 01, 2005 9:39 PM
: August 01, 2005 9:39 PM
i'm glad the electric co figured out the prob and took care of it. now - if only your gas co could find some problem that has been their fault all along - that would be great!
# posted by : August 02, 2005 7:20 AM
: August 02, 2005 7:20 AM
Yes, Donna, there was a MAJOR baby boom that resulted from the power outages... the hospitals were swamped 9 months after :) maybe because everyone was using candles it put them in the moooood
i think we've already established that there was plenty of "doing" going on...
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