It's been wayyy hot the past few days - Ned's poor parents were sleeping out the stuffy guesthouse before they left - and Ned and I were sitting in our room around 3:30pm as the a/c only works upstairs and we had the room cool-ish plus TWO fans. I was nursing the baby and we were chatting about dinner. All of the sudden, the fans went off and everything got super quiet. When the power doesn't come back on within seconds, you know something is up!
I got on Facebook and quickly saw my friends scattered throughout the county were all in the same boat. I knew if it was countywide it could be bad. With hours left until the weather was predicted to cool off, I started to worry about the baby. We gathered all our stuff and hung out for a while in the coolest spot, which happened to be my office. We put R in his playpen and fanned him with magazines until he got hungry again - luckily by then the weather had cooled off some and we could open the windows - and the breeze was back which was awesome!
While the baby ate, Neddie did some emergency preparedness stuff - got the candles and flashlights together, collected our bottled water, etc. He made sure I had the cold water and even fanned us both while I was nursing - what a good papa! The light seemed to be fading fast so we headed up after R was done to make some sandwiches and get ready for the evening. By this time, Twitter and the online newspapers (we had charges on our iPhones so we could check the news online, thank you God for that!) were saying the outage could be into Saturday - and that it stretched from AZ to the OC and down to Mexico - insane!
We set R out on the deck in his diaper and in his bouncie seat while we had turkey sandwiches and ginger ale. Here he is dining al fresco with us:
As the sun went down, the view was weird - no lights anywhere except for SDSU and the freeways. Eerie. Kind of made me think the zombie apocalypse was upon us!
Fortunately no zombies came wandering down our street and Neddie and I fed the baby, got him to sleep and tried to get some rest. A little before 2am we both woke up - and three minutes later the power came back on! The fans and the Hello kitty humidifier jumped to life and we were on the grid again :) All in all, for the extent of the outage, I was surprised it was back on so quickly, so I was grateful for that. Also my breastmilk stash in the fridge stayed frozen so I was SUPER grateful for that - 40 oz!
Neddie's parents also avoided the mess, their plane took off just an hour or so before the outage. Lucky as everything was grounded at the airport! I learned that I definitely have to set up some better emergency supplies for us, though - you never know when the real zombie apocalypse will occur!
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