Coming of the Windpocalypse

Around 3pm last Thursday afternoon, someone at work forwarded a severe weather advisory for a windstorm... with a remark that this looks like a big one. Most of us decided to leave early to avoid the traffic trouble and prepare for the disaster. I picked up some firelogs, water and some batteries. Sure enough, size D batteries were already gone. Before arriving home, I stopped by the gas station to fill up. The queue was longer than usual - 5 cars in front of me. Little did I know how smart this patient wait was going to turn out in coming days.

By 7pm , you could already see and hear the wind storm. We kept candles, the flashlight and the firewood handy. Turned up the heat to warm up the house in anticipation. Funny thing happened around 10pm. We were watching SCAN TV. A host introducing a documentary said, "now let's watch the documentary," and clicked the remote (kind of pointing towards the camera) to start playing the film.... At the very same instant we lost power. As if he clicked off the power of our entire neighborhood :)

Windpocalypse was here. We went to bed early in front of the fireplace...