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Subject: hellacious

Author:
hafer

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Date Posted: 10:31:21 07/02/12 Mon

well that weekend blew goat tits. friday started out like all the rest. i put hanna to sleep and started to play faxandu on wii when caruso and oreo run downstairs yipping about tornados and other bad things. having experienced this before, i walk to my computer and, as i pull up the weather channel, our power goes out. at the very same time, the wind goes from 0 to 80 and rain/hail/lightning/thunder start at pretty insane levels. the power blinks back on in for a few seconds and i make my way quickly to the closet to grab our flashlight and caruso grabs hanna and starts to go downstairs. i grab my phone and oreo and follow close behind. only after we get into the basement can i look to see what's going on.

the line of storms was pretty impressive. the front was that uber red color they use for only the most intense storms and, unlike the typical variety, it had some nice girth, probably a few miles wide. after 50 minutes or so, we made out way back up to the living room and, because all the power was out, we really couldn't see what had happened. caruso goes to bed, i feed hanna and follow shortly thereafter.

at around 5, i get up and take a look around. our house was totally fine. ditto most of our neighbors. the nursing home across the street had a bunch of big branches fall into the road and the fence in front was shattered in several spots. this huge tree (the trunk is probably the size of a vw bug) down the street essentially exploded which was cool to see. other than that, things looked pretty normal. i went back to bed.

around 7ish, i got back up and started our morning routine. caruso's uncle and gma were coming down to visit and arrived around 8. they brought a generator so we could charge our phones and run the refrigerator. we also did some early planning work for the patio. the good news is that there won't be nearly as much digging as the area slopes in such a way that i'll only have to skim the grass off large sections of yard and fill in some other sections. sure beats having to dig out 7 inches over 600 sq feet.

around 2, caruso and i head to frederick for a (lame) family thing. the best part was the fact that the place we went had ac. around 8, we pack up and head back home, only to find out that pepco had begun claiming that power wouldn't be restored for a week. using their outage map, we saw that our estimated restoration date was july 6th. eff. by the time we got home it was 9ish, it was hot/muggy in the house, hanna was getting incredibly fussy and we were all tired and worn down from the whole ordeal. desperate to get out, we call one of caruso's friends and practically beg to spend the night. back in the car we go.

the next morning (sunday) we're up and out around 10 to let odogg out. it had cooled down a bit in the house so we could actually plan out what we were going to do. we had to go to a big (350+ people) jewish wedding in bmore at 5 so we couldn't just bounce and go to my rents' place so we ended up packing our stuff up and heading to toker's house (nw of bmore). big gay frank agrees to come over and help babysit while caruso and i go to the wedding. on our way over, our neighbor calls and tells us that the power had come back on and that they had also heard that the wedding we're going to didn't have any power and that it was hot as balls (they're friends with the bride but couldn't go for some reason). it was hot as balls inside and i was shocked no one passed out, especially given how much the crazy joos dance around pre/post the wedding. we stayed for the meal and quickly bounced out, headed back to toker's place, picked up spawn, and drove back to o-town, arriving back around 10.

all-in-all, we were pretty lucky i guess with the storms. we didn't have any damage, but had to throw away almost everything in our fridge. all my beer is skunked now too. gay.

weekend fin

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