I had plans this morning. Big plans.
I made breakfast and ran hot water to soak the dishes. I pulled out my cookbooks and told Amy that we were going to do some cooking. I planned dinner in my head (pumpkin soup) and mentally caculated the amount of housework I needed to do to make the house look the same all day (same being: slightly messy).
And then? At 8.15am as Amy and I were eating breakfast and watching cartoons, the power went out.
Snap!
Nothing.
I checked the meter box and then, finding nothing wrong (except a lack of power to said meter box) I rang Aurora (Tassie’s power providers).
Funnily enough, I was the first person to report a power outage. They said they would send a team to sort it out and I hung up.
90 minutes later, the faults message* still didn’t know where the power was out. 90 minutes after that they knew that power lines were down, but that ‘time of restoration is unknown, due to the extent of the damage’.
Now, we have tank water. Meaning that our water runs from our tank, into the pump that then pumps the water to the taps. So, if I have no power, lo and behold, I have no water.
Have you ever spent a whole day stuck inside with a toddler (weather was too shitty to be outside) with no power and no water? Also, no hot food?
Leslie, I know you have.
Needless to say, it was a shit day.
Amy spent alot of time asking for eggs and then crying when told there was no power to cook eggs with. She spent alot of time tantrumming because we couldn’t go outside. And she spent ALOT of time asking for us to ‘cook sumping!’.
Sigh.
By lunchtime, I was over it.
By 2pm I was ready to kill things.
By 3pm, I rang Aurora again, only to be told that the power had been restored to ‘all but a few’ houses.
Guess who wasn’t in the 99%?
Luckily Aurora’s technicians are pretty good and the power flicked back on at 3.45pm. I have never been so relieved in my life!
Amy got her eggs and I was able to take a break from being a human trampoline. At least to the Toddler. The little one is not so nice.
The good thing though? Nathan came home with a brand new charger for my laptop. YAY!
*You can ring the faults/emergencies line and get a computer message of where the power is out and when it is due to be fixed.
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