Yesterday stormy weather rolled in, and it was a wonderful relief from the heat. Unfortunately, the black storm clouds that came in with the cool weather kept the kids indoors. #1, #2 and #3 were in their rooms with friends (we had about 12 kids here, mostly girls with the exception of my and two other boys) watching TV and playing video games. Mid morning (10:30 or so) several loud booms were heard, and the power abruptly cut out.
So much for TV and video games.
One of the boys had been looking out their window when it happened, and saw the transformer behind our house appear to, in their words, "explode". The fire department was called by all the neighbors, and soon the dark skies were broken with flashing lights of all colors. We had fire trucks here. We had police cars here. We had the electric company here. We had all of our neighbors, and people from all surrounding neighborhoods here. Between the storm and the crowd the noise was deafening.
With the power out and black clouds obliterating any light from above, homework was out of the question. Power did not come back on until late yesterday evening. By the time the lights came on, I was ready to shut them off and go to bed.
Bummer.
Today the power stayed on. The kids had friends over most of the day, and doing homework was difficult. I am now so far behind in homework and studying, that it is frightening. I’ve asked the kids to please try to hang out at their friend’s houses tomorrow so I can (hopefully) get caught up. Hey, if I’m lucky the power will stay on despite the weather report I saw earlier, and I’ll not only get caught up on my homework, but on laundry too!
Either that or the laundry faeries will come by my house tonight and do the laundry for me.
A girl can hope can’t she?