31/10/2012

• Hurricane Sandy…

  I live in North Eastern Ohio. You would think I have seen a lot of freak ass weather. Where I’ve work at, we’ve had the power go out and where we had to go home and come back the next day. The last time was in 2002 where we had the freaky power outage that took down most of the eastern sea board.

  Monday was a whole different can of Spam…

  The wind was blowing so hard, the power poles were swaying. Right near the warehouse. Six trucks that have to be loaded and one of them was headed to Columbus Ohio. We got that truck loaded and headed south. Got started on truck number two and the power flickered and total darkness. And I figured “Typical Monday evening B.S.” We stayed for an hour and half. Had to really convince the president of the company to let us go home. And we ordered to pizzas before calling it a night.

  The drive home was no fun either. Wind over bridges is never fun. Wind gusting to sixty miles an hour and it get pretty interesting. Me, I decided to stay off the highway. Nothing like dealing with down power lines and morons who should be indoors. Get home and relax a bit. Decided to suck up the water in the basement. As I get to the bottom of the steps, the power goes out. A sump pum relies on electricity. No back up. So I decide to bail out water so the basement floods. Gave up after and hour and a half. Leave a message to promisesunshine on the her Facebook page via my smart phone which was charging off my laptop. As soon as I do that, the power comes back on. Spend the next hour and a half sucking up water via two fifteen gallon wet/dry vacs .

  Oh, I was up at six am Monday morning to see the doctor. The blood pressure was elevated but not as much as the store machines said. Never trust those machines. But am going to be dealing with other issues over the next few weeks.

  So everything at work is a day behind and I get to work those rare Fridays this week. Oh fraking joy. And that day is a freezer day.

  Hope every one else is fine. Shower time and maybe six hours of sleep. Reading in bed is something I need to stop but trying to unwind from work is difficult.

  Be Safe…

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