DC area -- how are you coping?

Emaheevul07
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:39:08 +0000

We’ve had some bad storms in Michigan the last few days too, they are estimating around 105,000 customers without power and the heat index has been hovering around 110 all week. Some people I know have been told not to expect power until Sunday. I’m very lucky my office has power, usually when it doesn’t we have to come in and sit anyway in case it turns back on. My grandparents around the corner are without power.

I can’t believe power outages are so frequent for some of you. The longest power outage I can ever even remember was the huge blackout the eastern side of the country faced in… maybe early 2000s? That was less than 24 hours. Our power never goes out for longer than an hour or so and that’s rare, maybe once or twice a year if that. I am pulling for you guys, stay cool. :(

This has been such an odd weather year. It is so dry here that there have been fires-- that doesn’t happen here. The state picked a terrible year to legalize fireworks.