Last Weekends heavy rains

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I was supposed to submit post last weekend but forgot to gather my thoughts. Early in the evening after dinner, while it was pouring rain, we heard a loud thunderous noise nearby. We ignored it at first, but then, for the first time, our power flickered and eventually went out. I realized it was serious when the whole community lost electricity. I’d read that we were having supply issues and that some nearby areas were rotational brownouts to cope with the shortage. Thankfully, our place has a standby generator that kicked in right after the outage, restoring power. The downside was that it wasn’t strong enough to run the air conditioning, so we had to make do with a fan that spun slowly leaving many of us uncomfortable. I couldn’t sleep the whole night until the power finally returned about 3–4 hours later. I was just grateful it wasn’t a total blackout, which would have made the night unbearable.