Gee, thanks
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithAs I said before, upon arrival at O'Hare, I was greeted by rain and a very low ceiling. Think fog and clouds just about on the ground. I don't watch descents because they tend to make me squirrelly--don't like to fly, me--but I could see the whiteness out of the corner of my eye--because even though I don't like to fly and don't watch descents, or take-offs, for that matter, I always ask for a seat by the window don't ask me WHY--and braced for the turbulance the pilot warned might be coming. Felt a big *BUMP*, and thought, this should be fun, then looked out the window to see we had landed. Clouds all the way from NYC, and one of the smoothest flights ever. Go figure.
The 4-hour nap messed me up. I didn't get to bed until after 1, and lay awake listening to the wind. Finally drifted off around 2, only to be awakened less than an hour later by flashes and beeps. Took me a minute to realize that the power was flickering. It finally went out around quarter to three, and I got to lie there and listen to the silence of my sump pump not pumping. No, I haven't had the battery back-up installed yet--I didn't want to get into that until I got back. So, got up and pulled out all the computer and UPS cords to stop the beeping. Avoided looking in the basement because I didn't want to know. Walked halfway down the basement steps and looked. No water. Yet. Went back to bed because there really wasn't anything I could do. I was tired by this point, but I couldn't fall asleep because I was waiting for the power to come back on. I mean, I went through this last summer, knew things were better this time around, potential basement flood-wise--the rain had stopped several hours before, and the water wasn't running into the reservoir all that quickly. But still, there had been some seepage in the usual areas and so I was concerned.
Thought I heard the rumble of large trucks. Less than an hour later, the power came back on. Plugged everything back in, made sure it all worked. Checked the basement, which was still dry. Figured this was just my house's way of saying "WELCOME HOME!" and went back to bed.
The 4-hour nap messed me up. I didn't get to bed until after 1, and lay awake listening to the wind. Finally drifted off around 2, only to be awakened less than an hour later by flashes and beeps. Took me a minute to realize that the power was flickering. It finally went out around quarter to three, and I got to lie there and listen to the silence of my sump pump not pumping. No, I haven't had the battery back-up installed yet--I didn't want to get into that until I got back. So, got up and pulled out all the computer and UPS cords to stop the beeping. Avoided looking in the basement because I didn't want to know. Walked halfway down the basement steps and looked. No water. Yet. Went back to bed because there really wasn't anything I could do. I was tired by this point, but I couldn't fall asleep because I was waiting for the power to come back on. I mean, I went through this last summer, knew things were better this time around, potential basement flood-wise--the rain had stopped several hours before, and the water wasn't running into the reservoir all that quickly. But still, there had been some seepage in the usual areas and so I was concerned.
Thought I heard the rumble of large trucks. Less than an hour later, the power came back on. Plugged everything back in, made sure it all worked. Checked the basement, which was still dry. Figured this was just my house's way of saying "WELCOME HOME!" and went back to bed.
