Aww. Many thanks for everyone's concern. It looks like we'll be ok. The power just came on about 10 minutes ago. We left my folks house a couple hours ago (can only take so much being over there LOL), and came home to a still dark house. Thankfully we have power now...and everything in the fridge and freezer seems to be fine (much relief there).
I was able to get onto VFK for a little while at my folks house, and I was able to get the items that came out tonight (yup Pix...I did the single-mode trick..yay!), and spend a short while at the ball (missed the fireworks
).
So thanks again for all the concern. It was pretty scary. We had heard a very loud bang/pop (hard to describe the sound). At that instant, we lost all power. Here, some contractors installing new electrical wires and cables underground were boring horizontally underground running the cables and hit the gas line. Boom. I told my son to run to the front window since I thought it was an accident. He said "there's flames out there".
Needless to say, I promptly yelled "WHERE?" LOL. He said "across the street", so I started breathing again. The flames were shooting almost 2 stories high, and about 10 feet away from the building across the street, with the wind blowing them dangerously close to it at times. Eventually the firetrucks showed up and hosed the side of the building down...while the gas company tried forever to find the gas shutoff. Seemed like a long time until they got it shut off, but eventually it went out.
The gas company could give me no info on when they'd get the power back on (although everyone but us had power...go figure
), so I started checking the libraries around the area to use their internet access. They all closed at 5!! Couldn't think of anywhere else to go, so I took everyone out to eat and stopped by my folks. Fortunately, I was able to connect to their internet and get on game for a short bit. Sigh. Talk about one stressful day... It's scary to think that they were working right under our back windows earlier. God forbid it would have happened there!
Krazy_Kim: what bags?! Did we miss something?
(hugs) everyone
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