Day Eight: From approximately 3:12 p.m. on Friday Aug. 24, until approximately 11:42 a.m. today, Sunday the 26th, our neighborhood was without electricity after a little thundersrom. Sure, I could've gone down to Bread-Co. and used its free wi-fi to update my blog, but I was sure the juice would come back on at any moment. You see, I thought the electric crews would be right out to clean up the neighbor's rotton tree that fell onto the line. It would take them an hour, tops. The only problem was that it took four different tree crews three hours to figure out how to take down the tree then it took another three hours to actually do it. Then an AmerenUE crew had to come replace the snapped pole in our backyard and at about 10 p.m. Saturday the UE crew called it a night. Call me optimistic, but I think I expcet too much out of our local electric utility.
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