Friday, July 27, 2007

Gophers

I woke this morning around 6AM and the power was out. I only knew it was 6 because I keep my watch near my bed. No sense getting up and running if I can't take a shower, so I slept in assuming power would be restored by time I needed to wake up for work around 7AM. No such luck. After I awoke, I figured I'd give the power company a call to see if they had an estimate on when the power might be restored. I informed them of my power outage and to my surprise they were unaware of the problem.

'This is not good' I thought to myself, but they assured me that a crew would be over shortly. They arrived about 30 minutes later (I was impressed with their speed). There was power at the transformer near the street, but none at my house. So they started digging.

I took a shower at my neighbors (which is my fathers house, yes it was convenient - at least as convenient as it could be without power at my own). Having a personal well rather than getting water from the city municipality means that without power you don't have any water either, or at least not very much. Then my 5 year old Drew, figured that that was the perfect time to get sick, and proceeded to get sick on our staircase and foyer floor. No electricity, no water and a mess to clean up does not make my fetching wife happy (or me for that matter). After another trip to my neighbors to acquire some water which witch to clean, the whole matter was under control as long as we could keep the refrigerator door closed until the power was restored. And it was restored around 9AM.

The electric guys said that the power loss was a result of an inquisitive and persistent gopher who had chewed threw 4" of gopher resistant covering.

I knew I hated those things, at least I will never be bothered again by that particular gopher. Also it may be time to think about getting a generator. At least one that can run the well and water heater.

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