Blackouts and COVID
W e awoke this morning to another blackout due to downed tree limbs covered in heavy ice falling on power lines nearby. The ice adds too much weight for the branches to bear and it has been a bit windy too which doesn't help. I think we had power again in about two hours. That was just long enough for us to collect all of our battery operated lamps, lanterns, flashlights and power stations. This time of year we worry about freezing pipes but short blackouts aren't a major problem unless they fry electronic components throughout the house and we had that potential today! When we lost power, the power was flickering for about ten or fifteen minutes which caused all sorts of problems with our electronic devices, appliances and entertainment center. Once we had power back on I quickly realized that all the flickering had pushed everything into "pairing mode". This meant that I needed to set up each device again. We also had issues with a few of our ...