I guess the summer heat here in AZ took the month off in June but it seems to be making up ground now In July; for a few days anyway.
And wouldn't you know it, earlier this afternoon the part of the city where I live was hit with a power outage. I don't know what caused it but it lasted a good two and a half to three hours. It was only slightly cooler inside but with a stagnant heat. Outside it was breezy but breezy like a hair dryer blowing hot air.
These outages have happened before and our city utility company can usually get them taken care of in twenty minutes to an hour or so. No such luck this time. It did serve as a reminder to me how lucky we are to have electricity to use to cool us off during these dog-days. How miserable it would have been if they hadn't been able to get the power back up by tonight. I shudder to think of trying to sleep in this kind of heat.
Being a life long Arizona resident I can't help but chuckle when I hear folks from out of state speak of the misery of day time ninety-degree temperatures where they come from. That's how hot it was in my neck of the woods at midnight last night and the past few nights; possibly a little hotter. It's true that our humidity isn't as high as many states but it still kind of makes me crack a smirky smile when I hear those things.
I think I might have filled my bathtub with water and slept in it over night if they hadn't been able to get the power back on. I have two emergency generators that I could have brought into action if they hadn't been able to fix it. One is a small camping generator and the other is a bigger brand-new generator that I bought back in 1999. Do you remember the computer scare of 1999??? They were telling us that computers might very well all go haywire due to the numerical code that made digital computer clocks switch from 1999 to 2000. Yea, anyway; that's how long I've had this brand-new generator sitting in my storage room.
If I had to guess the cause there's about fifty-percent chance of being right if I guessed that a drunk illegal alien with no auto insurance crashed into a major power line. Don't laugh. This has been the cause of power outages in my neck of the woods on more than one occasion.
Well, they got the power back up so all is right with the world again. That's it for my rant. I just had to get the residual heat out of me so I could brace for the onslaught of Global Warming hysteria that's sure to follow this power outage. Be safe everyone.
HollowPoint