I swear my neighbor's diesel generator just shifted gears
The power is still out. Duke Energy has still not come out, so they are still likely unaware that there is a tree tottering over a (evacuated) house, being held up by the power line itself.
Will my sanity outlast the diesel? Or will the line snap, drop the tree, and make things go boom?
We still don't have power, but the neighbors (with the quiet, not-diesel generator) just brought me a breakfast burrito, so I'm doing ok.
Power company estimates they'll get our line restored by midnight (14 hours from now), and the storms that got us into this mess blew the hottest of the hot weather away, so it's only regular-August heat and not apocalypse-August heat.
80k homes still without power in our area.
Ok, so I don't actually enjoy a power failure anymore. At least not in August.
But I now have a jar of gazpacho (from my own garden), a slice of ice cold apple pie, and, as of a few sweet minutes ago, POWER
Thanks for keeping me company during my sporadic moments of internet connectivity over the past 29 hours, #FediFriends