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Monday night was the worst… The house wouldn’t cool off past 82 and there was zero breeze.

I took the truck to work Tuesday morning to tie up some loose ends while the guys packed the car and looked for emergency boarding for the cats.

About an hour before we were to leave we heard machinery and voices in the wooded corridor behind our house.

Finally.

We continued to pack and literally – right when we were ready to lock the door – we heard everyone’s AC units click on.

EUREKA!

We ran back inside… set the thermostat… closed the windows… and I ran the vacuum cleaner. Imagine three cats and two bears in a hot, carpeted, powerless house for four days. The house was starting to resemble a stable. (I filled the Dyson container twice.)

We hit three bad patches of traffic and wound up not pulling into Kevin’s sister’s till close to midnight.

We’re only here for a couple hours of socializing this morning before we head back out on the road to chicken.

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ABC blackout!


We made it through the first storm last thursday just fine… Well – except for loosing some big branches off of our tress…. But no serious damage to speak of.

The second storm hit on Friday and again I thought we were going to be fine… About a half an hour after it passed, our power went off…

and stayed off.

it’s STILL off.

Trying to pack and prepare for a 10 day roadtrip in the dark is less than ideal.

Plan-man West is doing a great job at holding his composure in the face of the chaos…. he hasn’t lost it…. yet.

Evenings have been dipping down into the 60’s so we’ve been able to sleep.

Ran the stuff from our freezer over to dad’s deep-freeze in his basement.

Heat and humidity is gradually coming back though… I’m worrying about the cats.

Chad says South City looks like a warzone… Tress on houses… Tress on cars… National guardsmen everywhere…

Dead people are turning up… mostly elderly who cooked in their homes during the tail end of the last heat wave.

Power is off at work too so I don’t know when I’ll get access to a connection again to post.

bitchmoan
I tried Starbuck’s figuring that’s where you go for such things – but they charge for wifi access apparently… Sure – it’s only 9 bucks for a “day-pass” (and I’ll probably break down and get one) – but considering the profit margin on a cup of coffee – I’m pretty disappointed… Actually – I’m grossed out.

Panera doesn’t charge for access, (yeah! go home-town company for not being shitty) – but – here’s the rub. Remember when my laptop died? – I never put Microsoft Internet Explorerâ„¢ back on my machine… which… is required to log on and activate your wi-fi connection at Panera…. and – I don’t have a connection, so I can’t download I.E…. soo… *hits head on table*
/bitchmoan

The weekend has been a comedy of inconveniences like this.

Will try to check in again – but it may be somewhere on the road between our little storm-ravaged rivertown and chicken.

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mother Nature was pissed

brewing overhead

Monday night we had one of those trademark, extremely violent midwest thunderstorms. I take them for granted because I’ve lived here all my life… It’s not until we’ve got friends in from out of town who freak from their drama and power that I’m reminded that these don’t happen everywhere. I suppose this is like the sense of awe that overcomes when I travel west and see “Big Skies”.

Babybear is a weather-dot-com junky so once the spotted the black-wall in the sky headed our way, he was up pecking in the web browser and pulling up doplar maps.

inset images of storm

Keeping in mind that all too often you’ll pass right by really neat free entertainment in your own back yard, (or in your own local atmosphere in this case), – we grabbed our sodas and some cookies and ran out to the carport for the show.

Violent thunderstorms make some people want to make wild passionate love. They tend to make me want to seek shelter.

The storm was a beast…. and at the sake of sounding anthropomorphic – this one was PISSED.

Ball lighting shot across the horizon while we watched a mass that you’d swear came out of a special effects house turn overhead.

We’re just east of Kirkwood, (see map) – so we didn’t even get the full brut of it… But still got high winds, electrical fireworks and hail.

I heard that over four hundred thousand homes had their power knocked out… (This would include everyone on the other side of our street). They still don’t have power this morning. We lucked out I suppose, but our elderly neighbors say with a strange elistism in their voice: “That side of the neighborhood ALWAYS looses power… “WE” seldom do. (*knocks on wood*)

I’m not blogging – I’m dreaming about the humbling display of nature from the other night.