House Call!

I woke up super early this morning and not long after started hearing rumblings of thunder in the distance. I checked radar and thought that this particular storm was going to go to our north...and, it may have and more popped up. Anyway, Woody got up sometime between five and six and headed to the laptop to run off his daily crossword puzzle. He hadn't been in here too long when there was a tremendous thunder clap and a flash of light/loud pop...that made me jump. I didn't realize that the power had gone off because I was reading on my iPad...so the lights didn't go off for me! Well, the lights continued to stay off and we realized that street lights and lights in houses were on around us...just not ours or Nathan's...not sure about the house on the other side of Nathan's. Anyway, we finally decided that perhaps we should call and report our outage. We found out during the big ice storm of several years back that we are on a line that doesn't include many houses and we almost got overlooked at that time and were one of the last to get power turned back on on our street...so now we think about calling about an outage a bit more quickly. We were glad to have a cell phone to use to report this morning as our phones seem to be out too. At this point we haven't gotten to the bottom of the phone problem...tomorrow is another day to get that figured out. I have attempted to go through automated phone calls and internet reporting...so far to no avail. We have had one hard rain roll through after another throughout most of the day. There is no telling how many inches we have gotten...but our front and back yards looked like lakes several different times today. Woody walked to the library this afternoon and got home just before the bottom dropped out of the sky once again. It looks like more storms/rain may be coming...just what we need!!!!! Feast or famine...drought or flood! Lights or no lights...we are glad that they found the power problem...whatever it was...it didn't take long from the time they pulled up in front of our house till power was back on.