Sorry for the Abrubt Departure
@GardenGerty (157485)
United States
June 16, 2017 5:00am CST
I believe I was in the middle of a response to someone, when BAM, the internet went out.
Not long after, all the power went out.
My nice cool little rain turned into a major thunder storm with high winds.
We gave up and went to bed. It was about 7:20 our time.
The power resumed pretty quickly, but it took the internet probably all night. As you can see we are back in business now.
We got up really early and the coffee is good. I think we will go in to work early, because we can.
Have a great day, hopefully I will see you later on.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
Your sunflowers may stand back up unless they were snapped off at the ground. Their root is usually as long as the top is above ground.
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@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
17 Jun 17
@GardenGerty most snapped completely off....others were broke. I tried to prop the latter back up but the leaves are all droopy so I suppose I will just pull them out.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Jun 17
We had a line of storms roll through and I lost internet for maybe 15 mins, usually it's longer than that.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
I am not sure how long it was. We went to bed as it had been a tiring day.
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@celticeagle (158680)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Jun 17
We had one of those here a few weeks back. We actually got an email from the ISP with a nice apology.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
It has not happened that often by storms. Once "something" damaged the fiber optics a ways away---wonder if it was a squirrel.
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@celticeagle (158680)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Jun 17
@GardenGerty .....Squirrels, chipmunks, cats, dogs, etc.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Jun 17
Glad to see that you are okay though.
So you have gone back to work then.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
I do not go back to my job until August. Hubby is working but I have to drive him.
@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
16 Jun 17
I love storms, but not the power outages they cause, lol. Especially now that my life is mostly spent on the computer. I'm glad you got your electricity back on. Several years ago, our power was out for a full week . Very unusual for these parts, not for it to go out, but for that long. It was because there were windstorms all over the state of California, and they were obviously getting the power restored to metro areas first. They got to us at the very last.
Hope you have a wonderful day!
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
That sounds like the year they had ice storms here. Where I was working and many towns around were out of power for two weeks or so.
@LadyDuck (457348)
• Switzerland
18 Jun 17
@GardenGerty It's cooler this morning and rain is announced for Wednesday.
@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
The down time can ve very frustrating.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
The occasional storm is part of life around here. Most of the time they have no severe effect.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
16 Jun 17
I'm sorry you lost power but glad it's back now. I hope you enjoy your day. =)
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
16 Jun 17
I always charge up my phone and make sure I have plenty to read before a potentially bad storm comes in. We don't get many power outages because of storms, but when they do come it's obviously out of nowhere.
Good you can go into work early, but does that mean you leave early?
@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
Actually, it is hubby who is working. Yes. He can start as early as 6 a.m. and he can only work 7.5 hours. That is counting drive time. No overtime allowed. Phones were charged but we were nicely tired.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
17 Jun 17
@GardenGerty
Atleast his job is flexible.. Does he still do the vendor / sampler type work?
Is he able to leave midway to go to a dr's appointment? Or would he be better suited to go in after said appointment?
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
16 Jun 17
those were apparently some bigger storms that rolled through last night although it got here several hours later
@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
Yeah, they were moving east from here.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
19 Jun 17
@GardenGerty they seem to do that here alot, roll in from the west
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
16 Jun 17
720 is early for bed. But then you didn't have power to do anything.. glad it came back on soon after
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
17 Jun 17
We are still trying to get some energy back from hubby having the stroke and being in the hospital.
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