I think we quite possibly had the worst storm I can remember in a long time last night. It started off with just a lot of distant lightning, and then all the sudden, we were being pummelled. Big time. Of course, it was right after I put the kids in bed. Naturally.
Vincent came screaming downstairs. Jade remained quiet. Then all the power went out, and it started hailing. Big hail. Like, nickel size or better. I haven't even checked my car yet. I'll be shocked if it isn't dented to hell.
The sump pit was filling up rapidly, I'm in the house with two scared kids, a few candles, and seemingly, an impending tornado.
We hustled into the basement till it settled down a bit outside. Brian came home and helped get the generator running before the basement flooded. One problem. On the generator, only about half of our lights and outlets were powered. I have (well, had) no idea why, as the generator had always powered everything fine before. So now it was scrambling to figure out which outlets worked, and which didn't, and get the essentials running. The essentials = the refrigerator, the sump pump, and the sewage ejection pit. The well pump would have been a nice touch too so we could have some running water. We didn't quite get that far till this morning. As of now (almost 11am the next morning) we still have no power, and the generator is going on 14 hours of continuous running.
Thank God for it though... I'm sure our basement would have been completely underwater in poo and storm water if it weren't for that thing.
Now it's just a matter of getting everything restarted, reset, etc... if the power ever actually comes back on...
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Ooo, yikes- that storm sounded awful. Well, at least you had a generator. We have had no precipitation for a long time, so as you can imagine our yard is pitiful....
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