Isaiah passed through NYC causing a power outage in my area

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We had stormy conditions in NYC yesterday. Very heavy winds and a downpour at one point. No thunderstorm though. A piece of siding broke off partially and was flapping around at a house across the street. I thought it was gonna totally come off and fly right into our window. Thankfully that didn't happen and it just curled and curved onto their roof. We also had a power outage where I live. My community was one of them. The first time the power went out was in the early afternoon and it came back on again within a few minutes but then soon after it went out again. This happened a few times until it was out for good. While the power was out I did not open the fridge so as not to let the warm air inside. And when hubby came home from work, he bought coolers and a huge bag of ice so we could put the stuff that can spoil (like dairy, eggs, fish, etc.) into them. After we did all that, we decided to go out to eat somewhere since we could not cook anything without electricity. On the way to eat we saw the power came back on, so we turned around and drove back home to see if we had power. If so, we'd stay home and cook something. Turned out we had power, so we unpacked everything from the coolers back to the fridge. But then we decided to still go out to eat. As soon as we drove off to the restaurant though the power went back out. I didn't really wanna drive around in search of a place to eat that had outdoor dining, as that was the only option, since no indoor dining allowed now. We went to our nearby Japanese restaurant to see if they had outdoor dining. They only had one table outside and we asked the lady if we could eat there. She said we could. When our food was ready it did not come to us in plates. It was packed for takeout, which is what we did not want. We ended up leaving and eating the food at home. I forgot to tell hubby to mention to them that they owed us $3 from our last order when we never got an order of sushi but were charged for it. However, they gave us a 10% discount because hubby paid in cash so we saved around $3 anyway. When we got home there was still no power. We ended up eating in the dark save for some round night lights hubby bought at the pharmacy that we put on the table. It was actually pretty cool. It was only some time after midnight that the power came back on and stayed that way for good. Hopefully, it will not go out again. The food inside the fridge seems to not have spoiled. At least what we we tried. Will taste the rest later.