Too hot to cook last night, so my beau and I went to a sushi restaurant, hoping to find AC and fresh fish. We got both and on the drive back home, we got stuck in the spectacular lightning storm which everybody is talking about today. We decided to stop the car in a big parking lot so that we could get a clear view of the sky without trees or building. Instead of making out in the car (hey, we’re in our forties and we’re geeky), we got our cell phones out and played « who catches the best lightning ». As you can see from this cool picture, I won.
When we drove back home the storm was still raging and we couldn’t see ten feet in front of the car. As we turned on our street, the street lights went out and we were greeted home by a power outage and an hyperactive cat. I don’t usually mind power outages so much (candles are fun when there are two of you) but I knew I wouldn’t get much sleep without the AC running in the bedroom.
When I woke up early this morning, sweaty and beat up from the hot night, I called Hydro Qu�bec right away. An automated system asked me for my address and told me that power should come back aroun 11pm on Thursday night. What! 48 hours without power! I’m crazy busy with work and all my files are stuck on my computer! I guess that’s one more reason to buy a laptop…
Turns out that Hydro was being pessimistic. The power came back around 12h30, for about 1 minute. I just had time to do a little happy dance… and then the power went out again.
It’s been back now for about 20 minutes.
So unless there’s another visit like last month or a natural disaster, I should be at Yulblog tonight. Tired and most likely sweaty but hey, plug your nose and be nice to me and everything should be fine.
Waow! Beautiful!