Storm

Last night, the skies opened. And that sky-opening business is always kinda tricky - the sky-trap-door engineer has to make sure that everything goes well. And last night, as Jesse Helms was going up in the sky to meet his Maker, the trap-door kinda got stuck. Or perhaps ol'e Jesse wanted to send one last fart at 'Liberal Zoo' as he used to call Chapel Hill.

The thunderstorm was very sudden and powerful and much of the area lost electricity. We were without power for about 5 hours - from 8:30pm till 1:30am.

So, we lit up the candles. Kids played Monopoly. I, being offline, read a book - yes, I finished a real, physical, hardcopy book!

Someone donwtown set off the fireworks anyway (although officially they are postponed for tonight), so we had fun trying to distinguish the sounds - which loud 'craaaack' was thunder, and which was fireworks. That was a lot of fun.