Well, THAT was special!

[gridlore]

A little after 2000hrs, kshandra came home from Woo-Con to give me my evening shot (yeah, back on that, but only three doses) and decide if she was staying home or going back out. Not five minutes after she walked in the door, our power went out.

Not good on a couple of levels. While we do have a really nice Maglite (one of the big six cell monsters) the batteries haven't been changed in some time. Then there's my oxygen. While I'm at home, I'm hooked to a condenser that runs 24/7. That died. We needed to hook me up to the big-ass emergency tank. Finally, we don't yet have an operational furnace. I've been getting by with a space heater and many blankets. I lost my space heater.

Had she not been home, I would have been stumbling around in pitch blackness trying to find the flashlight, then trying to unhook and rehook my airline, all while coughing, gasping, and shivering to quite literal death.

As it was, she was here, and everything went well. She even managed to give me my shot by the flashlight's fading glow. Power just came back on, total time off was a little under 90 minutes.

Let's not do that again, OK?

Comments

[tetralizard.livejournal.com]

just a little test from up above. No seriously, if you guys need more flashlights, let me know. I keep turning them down from my dad. I pretty much have 2 of them everywhere where I would need 1.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I'd hate to have Kiri come home & find a frozen & asphyxiated Doug-cicle. Blue really isn't your color.

I've known people who put their oxygen on a UPS, perhaps someone you know might have a spare they can toss at you.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Heck, bring it up to Kaiser and they might supply it.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Someone's looking out for you! (If you believe in that sort of thing. Otherwise, "Woo, what a convenient coincidence!")

Try calling the power company

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the details but long ago Arthur Hailey wrote one of a series of disaster novels about power going out. (If you remember, his disaster novels were meticulously researched, and contained a lot of technical detail) If you need electricity for medical reasons, the power company may have an emergency program or at least suggestions. (They don't want to be sued).

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Damn. Glad you are ok. Time to make up an emergency kit to keep by your side.

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

PG&E might have some sort of 'priority restoration' list you can get on in the event of a large sustained outage.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

This where it gets complicated. We get electricity from the City of Santa Clara, but gas service from PG&E.