Hurricane Bill

We got some rain, a little bit of thunder and lightning. I left the horses in until later in the evening after feeding. They seemed happy to be in during this storm, so all was good. Then the power went out, and some lights flickered, and the clocks were flashing, and electric car honked. He ran downstairs to say the basement was taking in water at the door. The power was out so the sump pump in the stair well wouldn't be working. Neither would the wet vac, right?

He kept trying to flip the breakers, but it kept blowing. I could see that the neighbors had electricity, it was just us. I opened the front door and one of the maples had topped itself onto the electric line, and pulled the clevis out of the house. Darn!

He called the power company and they promised to send someone out, around 11:00 p.m. He was here before that, and restored our power, but the line was still on the ground, under the tree limb. The apple tree got hit, too.