Power. Out.

On Friday at about 2 o'clock in the arve it went suddenly dark and a thunderstorm rolled through with heaps of wind gusts and lightning. Me and Bubby were really excited and stood outdoors with his colourful pinwheel held outstretched feeling the beautiful wind charging the air, watching the leaves roll around the yard and listening to tree limbs cracking off in the bush.

It wasn't until the next morning that we discovered our electricity service pole on the corner of our yard had crimped over at the base and was lying flat on the ground. Amazingly we still had power but as soon as we notified Ergon Energy the fellas came and switched it off. Great - thanks for that. We were expecting that they'd fix it for us...

A real helpful bloke from up the road soon came to our rescue with a generator for the fridges. But we've had no lights, no washing machine, no fans, not to mention no tv or computer (I'm up at Mum's using her's, serves me right for breaking my own rules!) One of the local electrition is doing his best to help out but we're having to bodge up the old pole so we can have temporary power until Greg's brother makes us up a new one and gets it certified by an engineer. The dramas.