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2003-07-26 - 10:28 a.m. - Cycle day: 34 weeks, 6 days
Day Five. A huge storm tore through town this past Tuesday, and we, along with half of the city, have been without electricity ever since. The storm scared the hell out of me. I woke up around 6:45 am and the sky had that ominous Coke-bottle color that my family has always referred to as tornado green. I couldn't understand why the storm sirens weren't going off. I looked outside and could barely see because the tree branches were being blown in front of the windows and the rain was coming in sideways. There wasn't much thunder or lightning, but I could hear what I now realize was the sound of electrical transformers exploding as power lines and entire utility poles were knocked down. The Husband slept through it all, waking only to notice that the ceiling fan had stopped turning. That was the last we saw of electrical power in our house.
So far, it's actually been pretty manageable, although it's been fun milking the whole "8 months pregnant with no air conditioning" angle. Really, the biggest inconveniences have been not being able to work (I can access a phone line at home, and a power source at the University, but there's no place I can access both at the same time, and since my work is Internet-dependent, I'm pretty useless), not being able to eat whatever/whenever I want (and my nutritional deficiences coming out in the form of wicked sugar cravings), and the damn mosquitoes. It never occurred to me before now how much good air circulation keeps bugs away. All it takes is one skeeter in the house and I get all chewed up. The little suckers love me. I've been using herbal insect repellent and I found a homeopathic after-bite gel, because I'm trying to avoid DEET and Calamine, but I wonder if the risk of West Nile virus (which has been found in our area) is greater than the potential problems of chemical interventions. I always thought the West Nile worriers were paranoid, but now that I'm in the immuno-suppressed category, I can't help but be a little concerned about it.
Anyway, my laptop battery is draining so I best wrap things up. Just wanted to check in and fish for a little sympathy. The weather's been unusually mild so far, but we're supposed to be back to our semi-tropical heat today. There's no way to know if the power will be back on in a day or in a week. We're surviving, but it's getting tiresome. And Scrabble games have taken on an unnecessarily intense tone.
