OT: Snowed Under!

[Renegade 13]

Though I doubt many have noticed my absence for the past few days, I thought I'd fill you all in on the interesting story behind the absence

Last Friday night it began to snow. It snowed for the next 36 hours, depositing 20 inches of heavy, wet snow all over the place. Of course, all over the place includes on the power and phone lines. And so, Saturday morning at about 8:30 AM about 15,000 people began losing power. To most, the power has now been restored. Unfortunately, I am not one of those. We've been without power for about the past 80 hours now. To put this into perspective somewhat, for those of you who live in a city and have never had a power outage of more than a few hours, this means that we have no water, no light, no heat. Nothing. What we do have (including this computer) are running on a generator, and have been doing so for the past 3 and a half days. For heat, we bought a propane-burning heater, and have stuck it in the house. This isn't exactly recommended, but hey, it's better than freezing to death which it damn near was before we got the heat back up to tolerable levels.

In short, I now hate with a burning passion the local utilities company (BC Hydro). I certainly hope we have power soon, before I have to spend another frigid night trying to sleep when the ambient temperature is about 10 degrees above freezing...

Thus ends my *****ing and complaining rant Hope you guys had a better weekend than I've been having!