11.4.2012 Day 6 - More power for more people.

We get a call from another family whose power was restored just that morning. They invite us over to hang out in the heat and have dinner. The kids have been out of school for five days and going stir crazy. A playdate is just what we need.

I spend the afternoon idly sketching in the kitchen and trying to teach the kids to draw. Football is on TV. Finally a chance to do the laundry. Clean socks!

In the afternoon we find out that the utility company has us scheduled us for repairs. Joy! Then we find it has suddenly taken us off the map as if the repair was done. Disappointment and then panic sets in. People are dispatched. No power has been restored and no one is on the repair site. Calls are made all afternoon to try and penetrate the Kafkaesque state-of-emergency type bureaucracy that is our utility company. Promises are made by supervisors but none are ever followed up. The best we can get is that the 'vast majority' of customers will be restored by the 11th - one week away.

We arrive home in time to use our newly acquired five gallons to heat the house for a few hours and take our showers.
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