Right on time the electricians arrived just before 8:30am to start on the electric wiring repair where service enters the house.
We’re about to find out how well we can cope with a short (hopefully) power outage as they replace a section of the wire between the meter and the mast.
8:44 – power is off
After about 30 minutes the electricians are done. Now we’re waiting for the city inspector.
90 minutes later and the inspection arrives. After 5 minutes the inspection is done and passed. Now we’re waiting for Hydro to do the reconnect. It’s 12 noon
So at 2:20pm there is still no hydro guy. I call and after a couple of transfers and a call back, “he will be there in 30 minutes “. House is cooling a bit but here on the sofa under a sunny window it’s pretty nice.
3:12 and hydro is here and 3:45 the power is back!
Made a few changes around the house during our outage. We still have a land line but all of the handsets are wireless and depend on power to the base station. All except the old school phone in the basement shop. This is not super convenient. I thought the bedroom corded phone would be ok but nope, it’s plugged into the wall too! So, I replaced it with the old phone from the lake, where there is no more land line.
The main bathroom doesn’t have any windows so it’s a little dark. I just happened to have purchased some battery operated cabinet lights, also handy in a power outage.
