All the electricity in the building turned off today. In fact, the outage affected a few blocks around here. It had been quite a while since I had to deal with a power outage. Fortunately the water stayed warm enough so I could finish showering and the batteries on my electric razor and toothbrush were charged enough to work for me. After a few minutes, I figured the power wasn't coming back on anytime soon, but I had a phone interview coming up and didn't want to go anywhere.
After my interview, though, I went across the street to a cafe and coffee bar to have lunch and to use their wireless internet. I normally just work from home, but I've been wanting to work somewhere else, so I'm thankful that the power outage finally made me do that. While working and enjoying my lunch, I got a call from a career counselor type company. They invited me to meet that afternoon, so since I didn't want to hang out in the coffee shop all afternoon, I set up a meeting with them.
I went back to the apartment to change. Before I ate, on the way out of the building, the stairs were lit up by some auxiliary lighting. However, the lights were out when I went back up. And, since I didn't bring a flashlight with me, I had to get around with my cell phone light. That was actually kind of fun because I couldn't see anything at all and I still managed to find my way to our unit. The meeting I went to took more than an hour of my time, and once I got back I was just about to head out again to have my hair cut when the power came back on.
I think all of our food is okay, so it wasn't a big deal. It was kind of funny that the power was out, since it took a few times of me trying to turn on a light or thinking about using the microwave before I realized that I couldn't do a whole lot without electricity. I'm also really glad that it got me out of the house to visit the cafe across the street.
We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
- Troy & Lesley H
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Electricity went out for 4+ hours today
Posted by Troy at 5:00 PM
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3 comments:
"things we've done" is really the best category to put this in? there's not a category for posts about the apartment?
just wondering. :)
and since I bought you that electric toothbrush, I have to ask, why does Mr. Decrease-Electricity-Consumption use an electric toothbrush?
I changed it to "events". I don't really know how to classify the post. And the dentist always recommends an electric toothbrush, so whatever...
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