Shortly after 6 pm (I think), the lights flickered. I didn't notice at first, because the laptop switched to battery back-up, but hubby, who was watching the TV, sure noticed. The lights quickly came back on... then went out again. The wind was blowing like crazy, and it was clear we were out of luck for power.
I half expected the lights to come on again within a few minutes, but it's now four hours later, and I'm sitting in the light of my laptop, which will only be on long enough to type this out.
My sister and her friend came out to visit, and we all went down to the nearest Ben & Jerry's to get a free ice cream cone together, then because it was clear the power wasn't coming back on anytime soon, we all went out to eat. Hubby-Eric and I got home in the pitch dark and realized that we didn't have any flashlight to be able to see the front door so we could unlock it. Hubby-Eric did it by feel.
I sure hope the power comes back soon. While it's nice to have the utter silence an outage brings, it's very strange to know I can't even check the score of the M's game.
And so to bed...
