Following from the previous post … the power company had told us that things would get back to normal at around 5:30 in the afternoon. After much waiting in the living room, I sat on the rocking chair in the balcony, a chair that’s probably much older than I am. Anyway, I waited, and just at the time when we’d get our power back, I heard a loud BOOM! which came from up the street. Some people who were passing by our building looked back to see what had happened, but I didn’t bother going out to check. After all, we get all the luck (not!).
So, Leoni left, my sister arrived and we (nephew included) sat in the balcony as we waited for others to get here. My sister called the power company so ask about our service. My mother did the same, and they both repeated this action every time we ran out of things to do, talk about or make fun of. Something had happened, and we were going be left in the dark for much longer than expected. Yay.
The only one who seemed very amused by the situation was my baby nephew, who is easily entertained. I still held on to the camera, and was looking for things to photograph. At the same time, my mother wanted me to make photos of the nephew laughing. Good thing they no longer ask me for that, as it’s more than enough to have an actual baby at home in addition to dozens, hundreds of photographs that no one looks at once they’re out of the camera.
As we had to save our backup power, we had to keep all the lights off. No one felt like cooking in the dark, so we ordered pizza. Delicious pizza, which we downed with Red Rock, a local brand of raspberry-flavored soda (or pop, for those who call it that). We didn’t have ice for it (everything melted!), so we ordered the coldest they had. The cold eventually went away, but we didn’t mind and gradually finished the two-liter bottle before midnight.
After dinner, most of us went back to the balcony for a while, and I was eventually left alone with the camera. I didn’t want to be anywhere else (in the apartment, of course) because I couldn’t bear the heat. Eventually, it started raining, with some thunder and lightning here and there. I tried my best get a good shot of the rain at night (using the flash) but I didn’t get much of a result. After a long while, and close to midnight, my mother told me that I shouldn’t be in the balcony at such an hour and I was forced to be inside.
I’m not sure how everyone else managed to sleep with the uncomfortable heat. We had to keep the fans off, of course, and having the windows open didn’t help much. I stayed in the living room for a bit, and took a picture or two. My sister came out and decided to sleep on the living room floor (on a blanket). Before I made the decision to go to bed, because I just didn’t want to sleep, I noticed that we had a bit of running water again, so I filled up every bucket and large container I could find, so others wouldn’t have to in the morning.
Thankfully (?), the power came back at about 9:30 in the morning. Turned out to be a 27-hour blackout, and some of our refrigerator food had spoiled.
Strangely, the power bill keeps coming higher and higher. More and more, it seems to me that they charge us extra for power outages. What a way for things to work! Wouldn’t you agree, reader(s)?
Yeah, it does look like the Blender monkey…and your worst nightmare! How do you do long exposure like that? Do you actually go flailing around the room to capture the stream of light? I like the long exposure shots, you should have tried to spell out your name. The last one of the light bulb is my fav.
What a minute! You get charge more for power! You all should sue or somethin’ cause that seems wrong. There was a similar case here and a lady was able to get her money back from the power company. Get your food money back too.
And yeah, Omary, don’t wanna stay out late on the balcony with the big boys or you’ll get in trou-ble :P
Nah, I was just sitting down, moving the camera around for several seconds to capture the light. To write my name, I’d have to write it in reverse and flip the image afterwards.
It’s baaaad to stay in the balcony. There’s be scaaaaary people out theeeeere!
oh, that’s cool, I just did it with my camera too except I was flailing trying to spell my name lol I’m getting the sideways stare from my pet. On a serious note, as long as you have the ring, the Orcs won’t get you :|
I’ll try the name thing one of these days, perhaps on the next blackout (they should announce them!).
You’re right. We’ll be safe with the Preciousss. They won’t take it from usss.
What a cool picture in the dark.
What is that by the way?
Just the candle seen in the first two photos.
I’m puzzled.. what is that spiral lights & how did ya make it.
Candles! I moved the camera around for several seconds.