Wet Alibi
Two thunderous bolts of lightning split the midnight sky.
No one was here to hear them. Only the dogs and I.
The priggish cats were nestled in a knot deep in their bed,
stomach against stomach, inverted tail to head.
Rain fell down in buckets. Lights flickered off and back,
then off again and all the world descended into black.
When some derelict wiring succumbed to the first drop,
I tried to phone a report to the electricity cop,
but not a person answered at the guard house or Con Ed,
so I finally accepted that the whole world had gone dead.
No wifi meant no internet. No music. No TV.
A twelve-hour outage led to nil blogging activity.
And that is why the phone just rang with an inquiry.
Forgottenman was wondering what had become of me.
Was I not going to post? So I hastened to the job.
The lights are on. It’s time to feed the hungry blogster mob!
True story, all of it., except for the poetic license of calling the Mexican electrical commission (CFE) Con Ed. The rhyme, you know….Over 16 hours without electricity. My story and I’m sticking to it. Actually, half of the house was in brownout and the rest totally without electricity. Evidently this was an area-wide outage, but just in spots. All the houses around me were dark. Below me there were lights and this was true in all the villages along the lake. Weird.
Check out this post if you want to see some hard rain: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/08/17/sudden-hard-rain/
Prompt words today are thunderous, active, derelict, prig,
accept.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Quite an experience and such a fun way of telling it, Judy:)
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For such emergencies, we have UPS ( uninterrupted power supply) outages are very common here.
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I usually have four UPS..on my fridge, TV, computer/wifi and in my bedroom in case I’m using my laptop in bied. But, all four are on the fritz. I’ve had them in the garage as reminders to take them in to get them fixed for over a year. I put them in the car. Forget, take them out again.
But rainy season coming on, I should do the job.
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Yup, yup should. We have one bigger one which powers one light in every room, Wi-Fi and fans.
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I have a backup generator but don’t know how to work it. It is a Honda, powered by gasoline, and I think the gasoline just got too old. Lazy me, I keep putting off dealing with it.
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Well you’re well equipped, no doubt.
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I’m pleased you got back on
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Me, too. ;o)
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Me,too. I haven’t missed a day in 9 years but had so much going on that day that I zoned out on doing it once I got home.
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i love a good thunderstorm…love the amount of detail here. i like how at least you regained your lights at the end!
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