The power went out the second time because a big power station or a transfer station broke down so we and a lot of other people lost power from that. Though it sounds like it would be easy to just fix the station and then have lots of people with power it is more complicated than that. It is not that simple and it takes a whole crew of people a long time to fix one of these stations.
Having the power back right before Halloween was perfect. Since the power came back in the afternoon we were able to dress up and actually see each other and do many other things too. It worked out perfectly. Halloween would have sucked without power. I went trick or treating with Cory. We had fun ding dong ditching people. One time we tapped on somebody’s window which was right next to the couch were a guy was sitting. After we tapped on the window we ran away. There was some slippery snow on this guys yard which I noticed. Cory didn’t, so the guy who was sitting on the couch came out of the house and started yelling at Cory who was lying on the ground because he had slipped and fell. Meanwhile I had gotten clean away and was at the next house. Later on that night the same thing happened but Cory got away and I was stuck so it evened its self out.
Cory and I got a lot of candy on Halloween but unfortunately I am allergic to candy so I gave all of mine to Cory and he really liked that. For Halloween I was a bank robber who had been grazed by a bullet. Cory was a very weird clown with a mask and had a cut down his arm. My sister went to theater camp so she knows how to make fake blood and all of those cool effect things that they do in the movies. She used her skills to make our cuts look very realistic.
Halloween was really exiting this year and I had a lot of fun trick or treating (though it would have been really funny if Cory had been a panda).
It was hard doing anything in our house when we did not have power. It is sad that we are so reliant on power because if it goes out for a long time then people could get injured, sick etc. This snow storm reminded me that we are very fortunate to have power. Just thinking about that made me think even harder about how it’s not just power that we have and others don’t. It is so much more. This power outage did a lot to my family. My parents are trying there hardest to conserve energy as mush as possible. Now I see so much more that others don’t have that we do so I think that PDS or I should do something to help people in foreign countries who do not have as much as us.
Some people have already gone to the hospital and others have died from the power outage. Some people died because they had their generators inside their houses so they got carbon monoxide poisoning.
While we did not have power we went to libraries and cafes so that we could charge our phones and computers and also do work because these places had WI-FI. While we were at these different places I did all the homework plus all the work I had to do to catch up for the days I missed.
After we got power back I ran around the house and screamed to the whole neighborhood that I had power. Unfortunately PDS does not have power so we can not go to school which I’m sad about. I’m also kind of happy that we don’t have school so I can organize my room do some projects for my own amusement and have all this done before I have to go to school.
On Tuesday when the high school had no school my sister was home, my mom and I were outside cleaning up branches in the yard. This was when our little in house power outage happened.
My sister was in her room Skyping with here friends when all of the sudden her lights went out and everything turned off in her room. She almost had a heart attack because she had thought that the power had gone out again. Then she went to the bathroom to check if the power was really out and the light in the bathroom did not work either. She went to my room and checked the light and it worked. She came outside and asked my mom and I what went wrong and told us the whole story. My mom asked my sister what she had plugged in and my sister replied a hair dryer and a space heater. My mom knew that both of those things used a lot of power so she told my sister that she must have flipped the circuit breaker. My mom went to the basement and fixed it and the power in my sister’s room and the upstairs bathroom was restored. A circuit breaker is a thing that flips off the power when the circuit for one or two rooms gets a big serge of power or is overloaded. When my sister finished telling me this story I cracked up!!!
Even though my yard looks like a disaster this weekend was really fun since I got to play lots of games instead of doing homework when the power was out which was a nice excuse. The story that my sister told me about the circuit breaker made my weekend one of the best ever!!!