Power Blackouts

In these days of extremely high temperatures outside and when the house heats up, you need to use fans and if your lucky enough air conditioners to and keep cool. But last night while the temperature still sat around 40 degrees our power went out, yes the dreaded blackout. The power went off at around 8.30 pm and didn't go back on until 0945 am. Candles came out so we could see what we were doing. No lights, no hot water, no phones, no computers, no TV, no fans, no fridge or freezer and these were my main concerns. That if the power remained off for an extended period that food would spoil. We waited in the heat for hours in hope that the power would come back on, walking around the block at 10.30- 11.00 pm trying to find some relief from the heat in the slight breeze outside. In the end I went to bed in the hope I could get some sleep, this I soon found was a wasted effort. By four am I decide to get up and boil a pan of water to make a cup of tea, went and had a cold shower as no hot water, it was a short shower. Dressed and left early for work no point in staying at home, had breakfast when I got to work in the air conditioning. After about 13 hours with no power food spoiled in fridge and in freezer. Then tonight we received a phone call from our son he arrived home from work at 7.00pm to fined he had no power. He had worked in a building all day, in 40 degree heat all he wanted was to go and turn on his air conditioner and cool off. This has not been a fun week for anyone, lets hope for cool days to come.