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Just like the rest of the world things went dead around 3:30 yesterday leaving the shop lifeless. I figured Id hang till 5 but needed something to do that power was not required on. Hammer Dolly time on a 37 Plymouth Pick Up was the perfect fit. Around 5:00 I headed home. It took about an hour to make the normal 10 minute 5 mile trip home. I dug out the ole Generator, a few extension cords and got ready for NFL  Man its good to have football again. A fan, Tv, and speed eating on the food I didnt want to go bad. LOL Pretty cool night in hind sight. I couldnt believe how quiet it can be. I was hearing neighbors talking from half way up the block. I was a little disapointed when the lights came back on at 9:30 knowing I didnt have an excuse not to come to work today. What did you guys end up doing? |
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« Last Edit: September 09, 2011, 01:58:01 PM by JustChad »
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2011, 01:57:26 PM » |
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Sounds like a good time. I ended up listening to the flashlight/radio to get updates. It's good to have those things around. For dinner I fired up the little BBQ and cooked up some Spam, Hickory Smoke flavor, and ate it with some crackers. It was a nice dinner by candle light with the wife. All in all it was a pretty nice evening, other than missing what sounded like a great game.  |
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« Last Edit: September 09, 2011, 01:58:22 PM by JustChad »
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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2011, 02:11:07 PM » |
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Moved the family out into the motorhome...had some tv dinners. I'm not a big football fan, but we have satellite tv for my wife and daughters. Didn't really miss a beat! Power came back at 12:30am
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2011, 02:43:40 PM » |
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It made me want to go camping. I came home from work and gathered up a lantern, flashlights, candles, batteries and a radio. Then grilled some burgers and read a book. then walked the dog and read a book by lamp light.
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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2011, 04:27:32 PM » |
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I was on the ship, so once the power went out, it was a mad rush to place all of our equipment on safe. Once the engineers got one generator online, we had to carefully figure out what gear we could bring up. I had to bring up the launcher cause we are loaded with missiles and it is always a good idea to moniter them. Once the launcher was up, we had to trouble shoot all the faults that the power outage caused. I didn't get home till after 6:30 last night. We ended up going to bed around 9:00. Very un-exciting for the most part.
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2011, 05:17:37 PM » |
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Party on the patio |
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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2011, 07:53:03 PM » |
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A few adult beverages while floating in the pool |
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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2011, 09:28:20 PM » |
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Got called back into work, ended up working till 1:00am keeping East county safe!
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« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2011, 05:14:31 PM » |
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drank beer and smoked cigars. very dark out here in the strand. i got on the roof and i could see all of SD and it was weird to see downtown with out any lights. or the rest of the bay for that matter. unplugged all my stuff just incase the power came back on in a big surge i didnt want it taking out my TV. other than that pretty un eventfull.
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« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2011, 08:13:04 PM » |
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I thought it was going to be a quick and small blackout so I went to big 5 to get a gun cleaning kit. I then realized it was a bigger blackout than I thought and came back home. Checked to see if my sister was ok at state. Tried to call MT but the phones were jammed. Made a list on what we need so we are better prepared for next time. The phones were jammed and couldn't talk over the lan line so I talked to friends over facebook on the cell phone.
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