Really bad weather the past few days, is a reminder that even this gorgeous tropical weather we so enjoy, has a downside. The late Spring snowstorm forecasted for our former home state, not a fun event either! Soggy, doesn't even begin to describe our landscape. Mr. Bill jokes, "we live in LAKE-LAND, appropriately named!" Many homes look as though they are situated on an island in the middle of a lake. We, on the other hand, are fortunate not to have a retention pond located within a stones throw from our home, the preserve however, is overflowing with water, it's abundant masses of decaying leaves seems to have risen at least three feet, as if all of the debris were giant sponges absorbing the monsoon type rains. If this continues we will have water front property. All around us, the storms have created quite the mess, many without power, son Matthew, among the thousands waiting for it to be restored. Living in an over fifty five community, ours was off a relatively short amount of time. Sometimes it pays to be an old fart!
Nothing worse than a busy chaotic weekend morning at Fred's News, grill is full of scrumptious foods being cooked to perfection by the Egg-Nazi, Toast Person has stacks of all kinds of fresh breads waiting their place in the toasters, Dish Bitch moaning and groaning, "too many plates to be pre-washed, dishes are getting ahead of me!", waitstaff keep pulling in the orders, continuous pots of fresh brewed coffee are emptied in an instant, then POOF....silence, as if "when E.F.Hutton speaks, everyone listens!" Total silence, then the moans, "Oh no ...powers out!" No rhyme or reason, sun is shining brightly, no thunder or lightening....then we here the local fire siren blaring, quickly listening to the scanner...."Accident car vs. pole". "What the hell, don't they know we are hungry," cry the patrons. Of course they are....we've got tons of food cooking and no power! Don't think anyone had the thought,"was anyone hurt in this mishap or do we know who was hurt." Nope, a hungry crowd is a nasty crowd!
No power may have also been the result of a particularly nasty storm. That being the case, Fred's News was not the only place without power. Unless everyone had a generator, we all suffered the same...no power. My favorite question.."Hey how come you don't have a generator at your place?" Well, we seriously thought about it, Fred's News was all electric. We did a feasibility study, with results suggesting; the amount of times the power went out vs. how much it would cost to buy a generator that would run the entire place. We figured we'd have to work ten years for it to pay for itself. Not a sound business decision. Johann the Nephew...Great, suggested we use one of his home made generators. Mr. Bill and I figured, that too, not a sound business decision. Johann known for things going awry!
So, we took our chances....the substation for Northeast Utilities only a stones thrown from Fred's News. The emergency crew working to restore power.....they too are hungry. As one of the work crew pulls up to the front door of the restaurant and comes in...."Hey can we get breakfast and why is it so dark in here?" he questions. Excuse me, dip shit, in case you hadn't noticed....duh.....no power. "OMG" he actually looks astonished, "we'll take care of that first." Within five minutes powers back on, in twenty minutes they are back, the entire crew and they are famished. "Can you feed us now?" they ask with broad smiles and devilish twinkles in their eyes. "Got to take care of the people that take care of us! is the statement we heard. Absolutely, sometimes it pays to have connections...electrical that is!
Nothing worse than a busy chaotic weekend morning at Fred's News, grill is full of scrumptious foods being cooked to perfection by the Egg-Nazi, Toast Person has stacks of all kinds of fresh breads waiting their place in the toasters, Dish Bitch moaning and groaning, "too many plates to be pre-washed, dishes are getting ahead of me!", waitstaff keep pulling in the orders, continuous pots of fresh brewed coffee are emptied in an instant, then POOF....silence, as if "when E.F.Hutton speaks, everyone listens!" Total silence, then the moans, "Oh no ...powers out!" No rhyme or reason, sun is shining brightly, no thunder or lightening....then we here the local fire siren blaring, quickly listening to the scanner...."Accident car vs. pole". "What the hell, don't they know we are hungry," cry the patrons. Of course they are....we've got tons of food cooking and no power! Don't think anyone had the thought,"was anyone hurt in this mishap or do we know who was hurt." Nope, a hungry crowd is a nasty crowd!
No power may have also been the result of a particularly nasty storm. That being the case, Fred's News was not the only place without power. Unless everyone had a generator, we all suffered the same...no power. My favorite question.."Hey how come you don't have a generator at your place?" Well, we seriously thought about it, Fred's News was all electric. We did a feasibility study, with results suggesting; the amount of times the power went out vs. how much it would cost to buy a generator that would run the entire place. We figured we'd have to work ten years for it to pay for itself. Not a sound business decision. Johann the Nephew...Great, suggested we use one of his home made generators. Mr. Bill and I figured, that too, not a sound business decision. Johann known for things going awry!
So, we took our chances....the substation for Northeast Utilities only a stones thrown from Fred's News. The emergency crew working to restore power.....they too are hungry. As one of the work crew pulls up to the front door of the restaurant and comes in...."Hey can we get breakfast and why is it so dark in here?" he questions. Excuse me, dip shit, in case you hadn't noticed....duh.....no power. "OMG" he actually looks astonished, "we'll take care of that first." Within five minutes powers back on, in twenty minutes they are back, the entire crew and they are famished. "Can you feed us now?" they ask with broad smiles and devilish twinkles in their eyes. "Got to take care of the people that take care of us! is the statement we heard. Absolutely, sometimes it pays to have connections...electrical that is!
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