All that stands between me and total darkness is a dim candle and the light from my iPhone. I am wet covered in soot and half frozen. A nor’easter blew in knocked a tree onto a powerline and set fire to the woods on the steep hill outside my house. I fought the fire with a shovel as the embers blew in the biting wind until the fire department came. Then I had to use my tractor bucket to try to clear a path so the utility company could get to the tree. The hill is to steep so they need to come back with more equipment. So, I am sitting here, huddled by a candle, wet frozen and dirty, eating some sesame crackers for dinner while the wind howls and the rain flys horizontally.
Whn will the utility men come? I need scup of hot tea and a shower.
Will try to hold out, but hope is fading along with my iPhone battery.
another bigger truck going over hill to pull first one out. If they could see the terrain in daylight, I doubt they’d be doing this, but with all the wind and rain and dark, they just don’t seem to understand.
Big truck at top of hill deploying winch. Will run out now to offer useless advice and annoy utility workers.
Actually, I originally came here to ask if this thread was for real. It seems a little surreal. But since there’s a happy ending, I’m going with it. Yay for you!
I hope so.