Where Did The Lights Go?

Last night Skyeler and I needed to run to Wal-Mart at around 11 pm so we could try to find an empty spray bottle so we can get rid of that nasty popcorn texture that is on the air duct in the bathroom. Well as we were wandering around we couldn't find anything. So Sky felt he needed to go check out his electronic stuff that he checks out every time we go there and as we were leaving BZZzzz ALL the lights in Wal-mart were off, and then shortly after the emergency lights come back on. IT WAS SOOOO COOL. The store has recently been going through some remodeling and so we got a little lost and we were just wandering around trying to find a spray bottle. We were using my Duck key-chain that lights up and quacks. I'm sure that all of wal-mart could hear this quack quack quack quack as were were trying to use the light.

We kept looking around and Sky called his dad to see if the power was out at the house. Yes it was, and his dad said that ALL of Richfield had no power and that we should pick up some candles. So off to the candle isle. I think they moved that isle but good thing we had our friend Ryan C. (that I went to elementary school with) works there to show us where everything was. Well after wandering around and listening to all the wind that was outside we decided that it was time to go. Good thing a couple of registers were on back up power so we managed to pay for our stuff.

As we were walking outside everything was black. Completely black, except for our wonderful full moon. It really helped out since we were able to find our car and etc.. Well as we were going through town it was so weird to see everything just pitch black with only a few stores on back up. Then I realized that my grandma and aunt are both on oxygen. I called Kathy to make sure she was ok. Med alert had called Steve and Holly to inform them of the power outage so they were just getting there to hook up the travel oxygen. Then we were about to center so we turned left and went to grandma's and good thing I had found my extra keys that had her house key on it. I went in and I told grandma that the power was out and that we needed to get her other oxygen. She was glad that I was there to help her out especially since her travel O2 was in the closet in the living room so I went and check everything out and changed the tanks so it didn't run out and got her new nasal things and made sure she had everything and went home.

Chris has some candles going so we didn't walk into pitch blackness. Funny thing is when I went to take Ezio out, because of the full moon it was lighter outside than it was in our house. Weird. But we managed and I got into our 72 hr kit that I'm in the process of making and grabbed our head light and that helped a TON.

Since Skyeler and I had been working on our bathroom (we had been mudding and sanding the drywall) prepping the area so we can texture we were COVERED with drywall dust when we had left to go to the store. At this time it was getting close to 1 am and I was getting tired and I really wanted a shower. Ever tried to shower at night during a power outage? Well anyway I grabbed the head light and put it on the shower shelf and I managed to have a enjoyable shower during this time of darkness. :)

After my shower I was able to read my Kindle and get further in my AWESOME and AMAZING book. Around 1:45 am the power came back on and life has continued to go on. YAY! I'm not exactly sure what caused the power outage but I think it was ONLY Richfield because if you looked south from the wal-mart parking lot (which is at the very south part of town) the lights were on going into Elsinore. I really have to say having the entire town lose it's power was kinda fun and interesting. Especially when you're in Wal-mart!