This photo was taken back in November 2005, during a power outage

Last Sunday, Hurricane Ike - the fifth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season - hit the Midwest, causing millions of people to live without electricity for several days (and took away at least 22 lives).

The power was completely out (for me) at around 4:15 on Sunday, and the wind was blowing rather hard that the electricity went out for twice prior to that. So with pretty much nothing to do at the time, I went outside and start shooting videos and enjoy the wind and such.

I thought that the outage would only be a few hours and that electricity will be restored by dusk (so that the city won't be left in the dark!), however, the outage (for me) lasted a total of 92 hours and about 50 minutes.

Anyway, once the sky start turning dark my sister and I started building a small campfire in our backyard. Wasn't exactly that fun with all the smoke from burning the woods but we didn't have much to do until we start watching movies & TV shows on the laptops - feeding off their batteries.

Schools were closed for the following couple of days, and my activities were of shopping, moving, and going to bed earlier - hey, it's good for the body after all. For the shopping part, I bought a new computer monitor (Acer AL1916W) for a pretty decent price (comparing to the manufacturer price and other similar products, but I have to do the very uncool mail-in rebate) and helped my sister moved her stuff into her new apartment for the, well, moving part.

The power was back up briefly yesterday afternoon for about 1 hour and 8 minutes then was out again. I was pretty upset about that because I didn't get to do a lot of things during that time period, except setting up the new monitor. At around 9:45 p.m. the same day the lights flickered twice, but electricity was still a no-no for us. :( I peeked through the kitchen window and the AEP electricians were outside and that the lights of the residencies on the other side of the street were on, indicating their restored electricity.

"Woot woot it's our turn to have the power restored." I thought to myself, but the electricians packed up and left - left us in the cold (figurative) and dark one more night.

That was so not cool of them, but I can't complain much because working 24/7 was probably not part of their job.

Well, they came back early in the morning (around 9, I saw them on the way back from Giant Eagle for some milk) and finally had the electricity restored a few minutes before 2 a.m. yah yah! :)

Life without electricity therefore over, and life is to be continue on - starting with going back to school tomorrow, ugh... :D

Comments

lol you should had filmed you! duh!. i had to clean the yard!

Yuen - 09.20.08 #

wow i was there to

kyle - 12.01.08 #