Yep, the storm last night caused a power outage. The Electric utility company sent out a text at about 5 am telling us that our power was out. Expected to be fixed by 8:30 am.
Next text at 7:15 am reporting that the power was back on. Yes, Amazon Echo did light up. For about 4 minutes, it was on, then off again.
Next text at 7:20 am again stating “a power outage has been identified in your area and may impact (our address). The current estimated time for restoration is 9:15 am on May 18”.
Next text at 9:45 am puts the restoration at 12:30 pm. Outage caused by equipment damage. Dang, I need coffee!
Sher and I are now in our RV in the drive way. The on board generator is purring along smoothly. We are having coffee (whew), enjoying TV via the broadcast bat-wing antenna, and kind of like being back on the road. Well, not really, but we are glad we have the opportunity to have coffee and internet via our phone hotspots. There is something nice about hearing the rain on the RV’s roof.
Power outage, yet another aggravation during this COVID-19 thing. Sigh…..
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I’m glad you guys have the RV! I’ve been through the same experience in Michigan a few times.
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Yes it’s very handy! You always have to cross your fingers when those thunder storms come along. Oh, and John, I got that pesky “page not found” when I tried to load your City Sunrise photo.
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For whatever the reason, once in a while an image just won’t render on the site but it does in the Editor, why!!! So frustrating. I uploaded that to my Instagram. My family sold RV’s in the late 70’s when I was in high school, we traveled to upper Michigan for snowmobiling very frequently in motor homes, such wonderful memories! I have no issue with living in one since I once again in this life live alone. Divorce….
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Thank goodness for the RV
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A big “amen” to that, Derrick. We are very fortunate to have both the RV and the house.
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Whew! No coffee??!! Glad you have the RV.
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LOL…yes, the coffee tasted extra good! We are so fortunate to have the RV. Thanks for the visit.
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At least your power company alerts you. When we have power outages we have to call PNM and tell them we don’t have power. They are like “Really? We don’t show an outage in your area!” I tell them the meter is blank, and there is no power. Eventually they get the power back on, but we can never assume that PNM knows there is a power outage. The last power outage we had about a month ago, I learned a guy was cutting down a tree, it fell on the power lines and started a fire. At least there was some excitement on for the guy, the fire department and PNM. Often power failures are cause by raccoons shorting out the transformers.
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I was pleasantly surprised when we started getting the texts form the Utility. Oh, and we got power back on about 20 minutes after their predicted restoration.
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That’s pretty good. The power outage before the guy who cut down the tree, our power came back on three hours after PNM’s predicted time for power to be restored. We are still the wild west out here with wild variations in predictability .
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We were expecting it to, with the storm we had, but thankfully okay.
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Glad you made it through ok. Storms can be scary.
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Used to them having lived in Florida 32 years.
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I think it would be fun to ‘camp out’…at least for a little while.
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It wasn’t really camping out as much as it was our own private coffee shop. Thanks for the visit and the comment! (P.S. We got our power back on at about 1:00pm)
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Thank GAWD for your mobile coffee shop! Almost anything can be cool, if you have your coffee. Full-on dig the sound of the rain on top of the RV.
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Jordan my friend you have totally and completely grasped the concept of coffee in the driveway accompanied by the melodic sound of raindrops on the roof. Thank you for comprehending, and the visit.
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My pleasure. Great scene… pardon, mandatory scene. Lol
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Good back-up plan!
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Having a generator is great and you got to feel like you were on the road. I drove my car today. It has left my driveway 4 times in 6 weeks. On the road again…. 😊
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Driving again feels strange, does it not?
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Absolutely! I still have the same tank of gas that has been in there since before the pandemic.
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Aren’t you glad to have your home on wheels standing by to jump in and save the day?
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Oh, absolutely! And save the day (at the least save coffee hour) is the perfect description. Thanks for the visit.
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Wow! I would have been freaking out with no coffee! What a brilliant idea to go sit in the RV!☕☕Stay safe you two!💜🙋
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Thank you, Susan. HaHaHa…I was needing coffee, then off to the RV for our morning coffee.
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