So, entering the actual month of June … this is why I should (never again) allow for journaling material to pile up. I’ve figured out a way to tell it all rather quickly. And it’s for the best interest of both this blog and my patience that I be hasty with this, seeing as this month didn’t start as well as it could have, given how May was nice … in comparison.
June 1st brings about the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, but it also brought along a string of power outages, and a couple of significant blackouts. And the month isn’t over yet, so, while a 27-hour blackout may be hard to top, I consider that the power company is up to the challenge of leaving us two whole days without electricity. This post isn’t about that blackout in particular (which happened on the 5th), but a power outage that took place on the 1st, and one that is very short in comparison.
It was a Monday, so I didn’t have to go to class or do anything at all. Our backup power (inverter and batteries) runs out rather quickly, so there’s not much I can do at home during an outage. Wanting to take advantage of the fact that I really, truly had nothing else to do, I grabbed the camera and began snapping away. I’ve been having some problems with it, as it’s not always metering as well as it used to, resulting in overexposed (too bright!) or underexposed (too dark!) photos. It doesn’t always happen, but I have yet to figure out what’s wrong with it.
While Leoni took care of my nephew, I was going back and forth between the living room and the patio, and everything in between. After some photos, I got tired and decided to capture something different. I went out through the back exit to the area behind the main stairwell and the stairwell that leads to the roof, and pointed up at the visible sky. Some good shots were made, but aren’t shown here (that will be on a later post). I eventually got tired, having fulfilled my daily quota of photography, and sat down on the couch.
The power finally came back at around 6:00 p.m., and that was the end of … that. Little did I know that something of the same nature, but much worse, was going to happen just later in the week. Check back later for that one.
Turtle images are cool.
Hurricanes can be a frightening experience that I could not imagine. Power failure would definitely make my life miserable. Well, maybe I would not need to work with no electricity at all.
Glad to see your updating your post here
It’s a bit of a humbling experience, surviving through a long power outage. You learn how not to depend on electricity 24/7. The problem with it is that we (and everyone else in the building) pay the power bill on time, and we still don’t get full uptime. What a country I live in.
And hurricanes … I clearly remember hurricane Georges. The glass from the sliding doors (that first photo) would expand a bit with every gust of wind. I thought it would break and fly at us!
so you put you hands in the water, thus contaminating it?! lol, jk
Thats a cool bug shot, but it looks like it was looking at you and it’s kind of scary. I think you got a seashell in your third fungus picture. And do you have a turtle too or are they just walking around, at least I know that to be the case in Florida some places.
You go through too many black outs, buy an electricity generator. When we have blackouts they only last for 30 min to an hour…feel like forever so I can only image how you feel, but at least you have a cool hobby to keep you busy.
btw, why is the couch and chairs so close to the coffee table, do you guys really pull them out everytime you want to sit down or did you move things around for picture purposes, just asking cause I’ve seen this before and wonder about the thinking behind that lol
It’s not drinking water, and my hand was probably cleaner than it :P
Yes, it’s a land snail shell. I forgot to mention it in the image description (something like “can you find the hidden seashell?”). There were a lot of those in the patio at one point, and they’d eat away at plant roots or sprouting seeds, causing them to die.
Generators are noisy! We had a small one at one point, but the noise wasn’t worth it. Our backup power will last a good while if we only use it to keep lights on.
It’s not a big apartment, so we pull the chairs back if we want to sit down, and sometimes the chairs and table are moved away to make way for my nephew. He’s learning how to walk and uses the living room for practice. And the table … we hardly put anything on it.
Nice pics. Nice story. Reminds me of Ike last year, and I live in Ohio! :roll:
We had an icestorm across my whole state this spring. It was still sorta cold, so yeah, ice storm. I got sooooo many things done, but my gawd was I bored as hell! I was the only one with power or phones!
You guys are lucky if you only go through something like this during a storm!
Wow! I just saw a report yesterday about a suburb of Chicago that averages over 200 power outages a year! It’d be nice if some of that stimulus money goes towards work on our over-extended and crumbling infrastructure. :-|
Well, that’s more or less our average. And the outages range from less than an hour to more than a day!
The government here isn’t doing much about it, either.
I know it’s in here somewhere, but I can’t find where you’re at. Here in central Ohio we’re more than a month into the severe weather season and don’t really have much weather to show for it. But there’s still plenty of repair work going on from the damage caused by Ike. They were up there banging on the roof of my apartment building just the other day.
Oh, I’m not in/from the U.S.
I’m in the Caribbean. Big hurricane area.
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