Tonight I discovered...
Mar. 5th, 2020 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angharad_gam That it doesn't matter if you have a gas hot water system - the water still goes cold if the power goes out (probably because the hot water system has a fancy electronic control system). In other words, the power went out while I was in the shower, leaving me standing in pitch darkness in a stream of freezing cold water.
It wasn't just us - the whole street was out - and not coming back on until after midnight by power company estimates, so we lit some candles, made a cup of tea, and Liam wandered around the house blowing his trumpet in the dark.
Hmmm, that sounds like a euphemism.
Thankfully the power came back on after about an hour.
It wasn't just us - the whole street was out - and not coming back on until after midnight by power company estimates, so we lit some candles, made a cup of tea, and Liam wandered around the house blowing his trumpet in the dark.
Hmmm, that sounds like a euphemism.
Thankfully the power came back on after about an hour.
