Power's out

Not too long after I wrote about trees coming down the inevitable thing happened here. The power went out around just after dark. So, I built a fire in the fireplace since no heaters can work without power and started up the generator in the motor home and ran a 100 foot cord to the kitchen and with a surge protector set up a lamp in the kitchen and turned on the Wifi also. So, the refrigerator can run until 8:45 or 9pm so they neighbors won't get angry about the noise of a generator and we can charge our cell phones up for overnight.  I'm also trying to make a pan fried frozen pizza because everything in the freezer compartment has to be eaten or thrown away by tomorrow night within 24 hours. So, we'll have to either eat a whole bunch of stuff or throw it away. I put a big plastic dish in the freezer of water (about a half gallon to gallon of water) to turn to ice in the next hour or so before I have to shut off the generator until about 9 or 10 am tomorrow if the power isn't back on by then. Saw some neighbors leaving and going to hotels as since people aren't poor around here that's often what older residents do during power outages rather than stumble around in the dark, freeze and hurt themselves since you can't really heat bedrooms just the kitchen and living room with a fireplace and cook stove.

I'll probably be up late stoking the fire so it stays as warm as possible in the house overnight. And if it gets too cold I'll just get in one of our down camping sleeping bags we use when camping and traveling  and for emergencies.

Just told my daughter to take a shower now because there likely won't be warm water by morning unless the power comes back on by then. We've had power off up to 5 days at a time here around this time of year because sometimes we get gusts of 100 mph or more winds off the ocean from storms like the one that whooshed through last night and today and brought down all the trees and branches and likely that's how power lines likely went down too. Luckily with the rain there likely won't be fires hopefully when this happens.

Yeah! We lucked out! The power came on about 10 pm as we were watching the first Narnia movie on DVD on my Macbook pro laptop. So, we only were without power for around 4 hours which is good. I may or may not have saved the stuff in our freezer. We'll see. At least 2 1/2 of the hours I ran the generator so the refrigerator was running so maybe the stuff might be okay.

We'll do a thorough inventory in the morning to make sure things are safe to eat now or in the future in the freezer.

But, for now it's nice to have central heating and lighting on once again.

Note: By the way for a pan fried frozen pizza with lid on frying pan I cooked it on low for two 5 minute stretches ( a little too long as it charred the bottom a little). So, maybe somewhere between 6 to 7 minutes frying in butter with the lid on would be better next time I or you try to do this. This was a large pizza by the way. For other sizes you are on your own.