I am now at home resting and doing some therapy to hasten recovery of my hip operation. It has been a 30-day ordeal but can walk with a walking device now.
My arrival home a week ago was incredible. As I got in the house a tremendous thunderstorm broke loose over the Three Tree Point area.
Great flashes of lightning, rolling thunder, scary gusts of gale-like winds, rain beating down on the house and then all the lights went out.
What a welcome God arranged for the homecoming.
The storm only covered a tiny area so I knew it was on orders from on high and not from Burien officials.
I knew Mayor McGilton was powerful, but come on. A neighbor called us with her cell phone and told us that she saw someone crawling down a manhole in the middle of the road so I guessed it was very local.
I was not too concerned at first because like many homeowners around these windy parts we have a gasoline driven generator.
But we had a problem.
I was unable with my gimpy leg to get out to the generator shed and turn it on but about that moment my son in law drove up and gladly did the chore. Amazing timing.
So then we had reading lights and a telephone. No television because the system is not as powerful as City Light.
We kept expecting to be on the generator for only a short time till the power company experts found the broken line.
Surprise. It was not until the next day, 18 hours later that the lights came on from heaven and all systems worked.
Was it fun? Did my neighbors lose their power? Did they have a hand in providing the fireworks like they do on the 4th of July?
It was a long night spent tossing and turning.
Elsbeth is on oxygen so we must have power to keep the oxygen machine running.
It was scary when the generator ran out of gas at six in the morning and we had to call one of the kids to come down and fill the tank.
We have had lots of storms and power outages but never has it taken more than a couple of hours for City Light to find and fix the trouble. Boy, 24-hour electricity is absolutely vital to our way of life today.
Thanks a lot Tom Edison.