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 September 12, 2008 in 

A nice breeze, with a few gusts. Few drops of rain. We heard a transformer blow in the neighborhood about 15 minutes ago, but we still have power. I relented and boarded up a few critical windows — Jennifer can be very persuasive.

Oma’s power (she lives a few miles northwest of here) is out already. She had vowed, in the event of an outage, to get in the car and head to Chicago, but I think she was expecting the storm to come before the power failure.

Why the power problems before the storm?

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  1. Paul Smith September 12, 2008 at 7:37 pm - Reply

    Mark;

    keep us posted. If it gets too bad let me know and you all can stay with me.

    Paul

  2. Mark Bennett September 12, 2008 at 8:32 pm - Reply

    Paul, that’s very kind. I expect that we’ll be just fine.

  3. Windypundit September 12, 2008 at 8:35 pm - Reply

    I imagine you’ll lose power pretty soon. I guess we’ll know when you stop posting.

    Take care, and I’ll see you on the other side.

  4. Mark Bennett September 12, 2008 at 8:47 pm - Reply

    Thanks to the magic of the laptop and the aircard, I expect I’ll post once or twice after we lose power.

    Unless, of course, the storm is inside the house by then.

  5. Jamie September 12, 2008 at 9:52 pm - Reply

    This is probably the wrong thread for nostalgia, but you are the only other person I ever knew (well – besides my sister) that called their Grandma “Oma”. May she rest in peace.

    What are you German or something?

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