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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 02:04 AM Mar 2020

Oh wotta day! This morning I was looking forward to our usual relaxing Sunday but due to

a couple of people driving recklessly in our building parking area we lost electric power around
1:30 PM And power wasn't restored until 10:40 PM. Then after that it took about a half hour for our cable tv/internet to become operational. I'm either too addicted to The Interwebs or too old or probably
both but all is well now.

To put this in perspective about a year ago we had lighting strike the main transformer that serves our building and we were without power then for 24 hours. So today wasn't so bad, right? I guess not. But during the outage I talked to a neighbor who was using his tablet to keep caught up. So now I'm going
to check that option out. I can't stand being left out and without...

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Oh wotta day! This morning I was looking forward to our usual relaxing Sunday but due to (Original Post) abqtommy Mar 2020 OP
I went to take the dog for a walk this afternoon bottomofthehill Mar 2020 #1

bottomofthehill

(8,327 posts)
1. I went to take the dog for a walk this afternoon
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 02:29 AM
Mar 2020

And only made it a few blocks as someone decided it was a good day to hold a controlled burn. The smoke covered about 50 plus miles from Quantico to DC.

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