January thaw in February
The weather so was beautiful today; it certainly felt like spring! There were high winds, though, that made it very interesting! We lost electricity for several hours, and phone service too! I was suprised that we lost phone service – that is the first time that has happened in many years! We always have a corded phone in the house because we are used to losing electricity (which makes the cordless phones useless!) and the corded phone still works. This time, I was talking on the phone and it went dead about three minutes before the electricity went out!
I used my cell phone to call the phone company to report the trouble and they claimed that the trouble was inside the house; they said that they ran a test right there and showed that there were no troubles “outside.” They said that they would come out to the house the next day to fix it. When the lights went out, I called the electric company from my cell phone, too. Well, a few hours later the lights came back on, and about thirty minutes after that the phones started working too, so I know that the trouble was NOT inside the house! Right after the phones came back on I saw a telephone company truck drive past the house, so I’m sure that they had fixed the problem from the outside.