I’m back!
I hope. The power came back on for about an hour this morning, and just as I was starting to let my guard down—putting my phone on the charger, turning on the computer to write this post—it went out again. I still don’t entirely trust that it’s really back this time.
It’s been a dull couple of days, but that’s not exactly a bad thing. We lost a lot of branches in my immediate area, and I have to throw out nearly everything that was in the fridge, but if that’s the worst of it, I can deal. No one was hurt. Nothing was damaged.
I finished all four books I’d been reading, plus a comic collection I was saving. I took a few photos (but not as many as I expected). I baked the cookie dough I had in the freezer before the power went out (priorities!) and watched one of my across-the-lane neighbours parkour up to his second-floor apartment in the middle of the storm and go in through the balcony door, for some reason. I ventured down into the storage space in the basement to find the camp stove, even though the emergency lights had gone out at that point (but something was still beeping ominously?), and there was no better (worse) place for the zombies to attack.
(Related: I’m 90% sure that parkour guy—or his roommate or partner or whatever—is the one I regularly hear belting out “Zombie” by the Cranberries, but I haven’t been able to confirm it.)
It’s still going to take me a couple of days to get completely back to normal, to catch up with Instagram and Twitter and this blog. And everything else. Bear with me.
Reghan Skerry 
2 responses to “Electricity.”
Good to hear, that you’re ok!
But I must admit, this has some suspense for someone, who never experienced anything like that!
(Neither hurricanes nor zombies :-))
Thanks! Storms like that can be a bit nerve-wracking, but I’m in a pretty good spot. When they do hit, they’re (relatively) weak, and they don’t stall over top of us like they can further south. (The water here is cold enough that it sucks the energy out of hurricanes, rather than strengthening them.)
(I haven’t had to deal with zombies yet, but that basement… it takes on a distinctly post-apocalyptic vibe when I’m navigating by flashlight. 😄)