It was so nice of Northeast Utilities to finally get around to getting a crew out to repair the downed power line that spend almost a day arcing when the wind jounced the tree that had fallen across the power lines and snapped a line to dangle in the middle of our driveway.
Of course we were stuck not being able to go anywhere, which was good - we could make sure that despite the drenching rain the arcing live wire didnt catch anything it bounced into contact with on fire. Although living out in the country with no electricity is great, getting us in touch with our medieval predecessors who also didnt have indoor plumbing, refrigeration and had to cook with wood/charcoal heat.
And it did sort of make a nice [although intermitant] night light. I never knew that an arcing power line in the rain arced a rather spectacular orange fire.
And of course, all the people who drove over the bright yellow tape that the fire department placed to keep people safe must have thought the big yellow signs in the middle of the road and yellow emergency tape were put there as a road beautification project.
Fuck NU - I guess an active fire danger isn’t any reason to get a repair crew out in less that 36 hours.
Could be worse. When one fell across the street from us, my husband was watching a crew work on it (by this point it was no longer jumping around), and a woman was walking along that side of the street. She went around the sawhorses they’d put up and had leaned over to touch it when the crew noticed her and yelled for her to stop. She actually looked offended at this, and as she walked off, one crew member yelled, “What is wrong with people here?!” I sympathize completely, having to live among these self-centered idiots.
Of course, this was only 8 hours later or less, so I guess I shouldn’t complain about ComEd so much in light of your story. It burned holes in the blacktop here, so I’m scared to think what it would have done in 36 hours.
heh. we had a coop of 4 geese, 4 ducks, 6 chickens and a poult that we had to bring in because we had no power for the heat lamp we were brooding them with out on the back deck. Only thing missing was the knights wandering by opressing us
We did crack open a bottle of mead and a bottle of cyser
