My Day

I didn't have quite the awful day that Alice had yesterday (see her personal blog), but it was loooong, to say the least. After a day full of errands (shopping, went with Elliot to survey a house he has been asked to paint, etc.), we went to Elliot's parents to grill shrimp and eat. They had about 10 people over.

Pretty soon before we are planning on making our exit, the weather starts to turn, so we go inside. We start hearing the rain pelt against the house and the wind acting up. I go to the window to see what's going on, and right when I lean against the wall in order to do so, this eerie blue light fills the sky, and I can feel the house buzzing. It turns out that a tree has fallen over, directly hitting one telephone/utility pole and ripping down another two as well. When the wind and rain die down, we see that live wires are all over the road and in the driveway. We aren't going anywhere! And since it is a Saturday evening, Northeast Utilities is slow in coming (according to the news this morning, they are still 2 hours from opening up the road, which is a major road in the area). Meanwhile, it is getting very dark out, which is serious in this case, since a) Elliot's parents have, of course, lost electricity; b) Elliot's parents live in a house built in 1692, which is very dark even when the electricity is working; c) there are 10 people there, tripping over one another. Finally, the utility company comes, turns off the power so we can drive over wires and escape home.

Lordy. I've had enough socializing for one weekend.