With a huge lightning storm kapow! out went our internet and the baby woke up crying. Tampa Bay is the lightning capital of the nation and a July storm here is not for the faint of heart, --ironic given the median age of most of the residents and proof that somebody in the universe has a Monty Pythonesque sense of humor, hee-hee.
I grew up knowing everything NOT to do during one of these storms and I have to pound this into my stubborn French husband's head every Summer when we visit as he blatantly insists on doing his best imitation of a dumb Florida tourist by standing under trees, swimming in the rain and bike riding on the trail between strobes of light. "Are you nuts!?" I scream. And then my mom runs out and screams at him and then he gets to hear a ten minute story by my step dad about all the people killed each year, and by then he's ready to get on the next available flight anywhere but here. I will remind you though that he is an engineer from a highly respected school in France so this is just falling on deaf ears out of defiance for his mother-in-law. His defiance may get him killed one day though and the proof is in my blog here that I told him more than once.
This one on Monday was a particularly nice boom but strikes and mini power snips are so common here that we didn't even call anybody for 24 hours. Internet goes out ...and then magically comes on the next day. Finally after a day we started getting worried and so we called and grabbed a place in line. This particular strike fried one of Verizon's main units in the area and about 25 homes in our neighborhood alone were without service, so we had to wait a few days before they could even think of getting to us. My dad called threatening to switch back to Brighthouse Networks if they didn't speed things up and that had them sending someone out a whole 12 hours faster. Still it was slow getting everything back up and running. And for a whole extra day my mom's computer was still not online. Yes we each have our own computers and we really don't like to share!
I was the worst off. I had to wait two days for the password on my guest computer because with the new router there was a new password. They could have told us this when they reset everything but that took a whole afternoon to sort out why the old one didn't work. Finally though after much frustration and pencil tapping I'm back online.
Was I not supposed to be blogging for some reason? I always think there's a reason especially when nature is involved. What is it some higher purpose needed me to skim over on my days stranded without access. I must have run to the computer about 10 different times over these four silent days to look up information, grab a recipe, search for a book title, or look up a baby tip only to stop and scratch my head and say "hmm, what now?" I am probably a little too reliant on this thing. It wasn't such a bad thing actually to take a break.
*pic-looking out my parent's front door during a bad storm.
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