Taking the Power Back

Aw yeah. We got power back on Friday evening. When it happened, whoops and hollers and cheers and applause and shouts were heard up and down the street. People on lazy strolls ran home, presumably to turn on as many lights as possible.

Unfortunately, Tenny did not fare so well.

RIP, Tenny the Telephone Pole.

Just kidding! Tenny's head was put onto another pole. He got a body lift-- and who couldn't use one of those, am I right, ladies?

In the same way that the sink turns into a biology project around these parts if you don't stay on top of washing your dishes, the bugs start reclaim the house in the absence of electricity. Here's their precarious ceiling-fan home.

 

We still don't have cable, so the f and I spent most of Saturday reading in recliners. He read an entire book, I finished an excellent memoir I began reading the other day. Then we watched a hilarious Louis CK standup special on DVD. It made me kind of dread the return of cable and its too many choices that blot out better choices. Since getting power back, we've already hung out with the neighbros and our other friend Jonathan 100% less than we had the rest of the week.

Now with all this power...what will we do?

Trying so hard to recall my recent dream with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne...must be so much better than all those hurricane/survival- inspired anxiety dreams...

Comments

[suntawrites]

Hey Survivors! Welcome back power - F Cable.
Glad to hear you enjoyed some reading and much deserved relaxation.
Your update on Tenny was quite appreciated! :)

[kartek]

Everyone is hanging out solo since I'm sure everyone is dealing with their own at home biology projects and other chores/luxuries that have been neglected in the past week. Glad to hear you are back on the grid...but I would be sure to stock up on 'cane supplies. I would be worried about Ike if I were you.

[jason]

Yeay!!!!!

I was worried about you all up there.

(by the way, that's just about the best picture of a school desk chair I've ever seen.
(Honest!)

[Leslie @ the oko box]

It really makes you wonder why people live there- on purpose- for all their lives!?
I know it makes me think of that... i tried remembering back to the way I thought when I was 17 and New Orleans was the only town and culture I ever knew : No one seems to even be aware that other places are not pounded with storms every year or so, people would act like it was just a big thunderstorm till Katrina came and scared the shit out of everyone. And still I imagine there is some complacent vibe going on. I lived 6 blocks from a levee that seemed to be nothing more then a dirt pile with some thin cement on the river side, i drove past that levee everyday not even thinking about how f-en WEIRD it is that the river was above my car & only being held back by the old crappy engineered mound of dirt.
People don't know the difference and rarely get out to live in another state- most my friends who left Louisiana call it a "black hole", because of the dark way it sucks you in without knowing. And in the case of a hurricane....that's another style of black hole. :)
I dont even want to think about days of no air in the BR summer- it's too sick to even imagine.
So here's a yo mama joke to cheer you up::::

Yo mama is so dirty that when she gets out the tub there's gumbo!

[Apollo]

good go on the flaming lips

[Big Daddy]

Who's house is that in the first pic?

Yikes.

[jeff]

Welcome back to the grid.

[Lioux]

I'm glad to hear everything is mostly okay.

Rock on, Tenny!!!

[Alicia]

STILL NO POWER FOR US IN CAPITAL HEIGHTS. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE 14 TO 21 DAYS.

(SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS.)

[cokane]

thanks all!

Leslie, I have wondered the saaaame thing. also: LOL re: yo momma joke

Alicia, I would be writing in all caps, too. Jesus! Sorry dude. Need ice? We have tons.