Hooray for Batteries and Aladdin Lamps

No rain. Well, there was some rain in sight. And, we had a warning from our friendly waiter at TGIF. His girlfriend had called (at work!) and said that a heavy storm would hit within about 10 minutes.

True, the sky was very dark, especially to the northeast of us.

We headed home down route 256 and discovered several (most) of the light signals were out. The lights were out at Kroger's but not at Giant Eagle. The lights were out in our subdivision.

The problem?

NO RAIN! 88 degrees outside, no electricity until about 11 pm. NO RAIN! Oh, sure, we received some scanty lightning.

Since we arrived home about 7:30 pm, we still had not finished the day, so to speak. I had a motion to research and write, and number of emails to write, and my family wanted to read. I also wanted to add to this blog.

That is where batteries and the Aladdin Lamps come in. I was able to use my laptop to generate the first portion of the motion (not the memo in support) and to compose various emails. The Aladdin lamp was useful for two readers.

However, we grew tired of this and all went to bed earlier than usual. I got up when the electricity came back on to check the CGI outlet in the garage. It that outlet had tripped, then our freezer would not come back on. Bad news. However, in the outage, the CGI had not tripped. Food saved!