Because I’ve had a few mails and expect many more and can’t answer them for a while…the same idiots that screwed up my back yard and broke one of my rear windows and put the big green tombstone in my back yard and otherwise fucked up miles of perfectly good streets just so the masses can have yet another cable-based option to watch mind-numbing phallocentric sports and to use the television as a babysitter in lieu of parental oversight and responsibility, have somehow cut through a main power cable and there is no power anywhere near me.
According to Jed D. BillyJoeBobBaxter Jr III (well, either that was his name, or “Bush/Cheney '04” was his name, according to the lapel pin he was wearing…and “'04”? Doesn’t he realize…oh, never mind) who was standing by the hole in the ground holding a light post up by leaning against it and smoking, “Yeah, they’all went and cut through a big ol’ line cuz we didn’t put them markin’s down fer um. Don’ know why not. Shit happens, ya know?. Y’all might get power back tonight I reckon.”
I didn’t see any corpses burning in the street, so I assume that the miscreants responsible got off easy. Anyhow…FYI
:: And on the 8th day, God invented the “Back-Hoe”.:::
The construction industry’s most useful power tool and the one that can dig then into an ‘oops’ faster than you can run out your back door screaming ‘STOP’.
It was actually a horizontal drilling rig (you know, like the “Burns Slant Drilling Company”) that plunged my neighborhood into darkness. The backhoes are out now, however, turning one sad neighbor’s prize lawn into a simulation of the Battle of the Ardennes.
Then I suppose it wouldn’t be a bad idea for me to sit on the front porch in my rocking chair, clutching my shotgun, and staring at our neighbors.
They still have backhoes and rock drills going full blast.
We’ll be back up in about an hour or less. They have a giant temporary power thing laying across the street like an anaconda. I’m running the usual repair/test stuff on the server now.
please, just be happy it wasn’t a gas line. I had a contractor with a directional boring rig hit one. It’s not all that much fun. Hope your juice gets back on soon.
