Fun with transformers. in 2014

Well...that was interesting. It seems I can't escape power issues. After loosing power at work last Thursday and again yesterday, our power went at 3am, started flickering a short time later like it was trying to come back on, then there was a loud explosion outside and it went off for good. Then my phone died. Which was very unfortunate for me since I was using it as a flashlight to get downstairs and had only made it halfway down the first set of steps when it gave up. Fortunately, I made it into the living room without incident and/or painful injury.

So! Outside I went with the car charger, in time to see two cop cars and a fire truck come into the parking lot further up from our place. The cops left, then News 9 showed up. One of the firemen saw the van, got out of the truck, realised it was News 9 and said, "You're not OG&E! I don't think you can fix our problem."

It just came back up, but the guy from og&e is baffled. He said whatever happened to cause the transformer to blow blew the top of it completely off and there is now a hole in the ground underneath it. He said it had something to do with the underground lines and he'd never seen that before. But he was able to fiddle with the boxes for the units themselves and get everyone on our end of the complex back up.

Since it was only off for an hour and a half, I could have just stayed inside but A) it was way too dark, making it very oppressive, B) it was way too quiet, making it even more oppressive, and C) there is that unspoken rule that, in the event of a power outage, you go outside. I got to meet a few neighbors I hadn't met yet and chatting with them made the time go a lot quicker than it would have had I sat in the dark, twiddling my thumbs. Ben mostly slept through it all. He woke up just long enough to ask if the power went out, unlock his phone for me to report the outage since I can never remember his unlock pattern and ask me not to use it much since the battery was at 30% just in case.

All in all, it was fairly entertaining. Now it's time to relax again and go back to bed.