Stories From Our Alaskan Life - The Power Outages
Power outages happen at certain times of the year in our part of rural Interior Alaska. This window into an outage that happened in September of 2016. This week has been one power outage after another, literally, accompanied by a two-day windstorm that sounded like a runaway freight train. Let's start at 11 pm Tuesday night. The Hedy dog got us up to go potty, at which time we discovered the power was out. Plan of action - let dogs out, set cell phone alarm. No big deal. Glad the Hedy got us up. Fast forward to 5 am, still no power, really glad we set alarm on phone. No power, no coffee for Hubby's drive to work. No power, no morning computer time for me. No power, no electric dog fence. The largest problem of all - two cars stuck in the garage. Yes, there is a manual release, but we aren't to that part of the story yet. I convince Hubby it's not a big deal, surely they will have the power on soon. I tell him to just take the truck and get to work, so