Feel the Power

Outage Reported: The power outage in your area has already been reported. We anticipate having your service restored by 7/14/2014 7:45:00 PM.

Generators are good. We just had a big thunder storm, lots of lightning and noise, with half an inch of rain delivered in about ten minutes. Just as it was wrapping up ... flash, sputter ... power is out. It tried a couple of times to spin back up within the first two minutes, then nothing.

Given rain and a sump pump, I figured I might as well spin up the generator. Now everything except the air conditioning is working just fine. I'll keep an eye on other houses on the street - when their light go on, I'll flip back to street power.