Day #4: No power, cold showers suck!

Still no power here. I *LOVE* my generator and am going to go gas hunting shortly, as I'm down to about four gallons total remaining.

Phone and DSL service has been spotty; Bellsouth has had trouble keeping the generator at the RT fueled. I'm on dialup at the moment, and let me tell you; once you've been on DSL and ISDN for years, dialup is practically unbearable.

I spent Wednesday on campus getting all critical services (including sarabi/Zorin.org };) ) back up and running. Now that Zorin.org is up, I'm going to go ahead and copy in the various Livejournal posts I made before this one.

Tuesday 10/25

So, the power is still out here. Luckily I have enough fuel to run the generator for a few more days.

The phone service died early this morning, due to the batteries running out at the equipment vault (Remote Terminal) that feeds my line. On a whim, I picked up the phone about an hour ago, and there was dialtone again! Apparently bellsouth wheeled a generator trailer out to my RT and plugged it in, lighting up all the phone lines in the area gain. Kudos to Bellsouth for doing this; there's hundreds of RTs all over the city! They must have a lot of generators.

Spent the day cleaning up most of the mess outside; things are looking a bit more normal now. I'll have some photos of the damage around here up once power returns and I get high-speed internet again. At least the phone service is back, so some of the boredom is abated...

Monday 10/24:

Well, I'm getting tired of hurricanes, and I'm sure everyone else in FL is too!

After shuttering up it took a while for the brunt of it to get here. Surprisingly, the power actually managed to stay on until well into the storm! Gusts really started up around 3AM, and the power stayed on until 5:30AM or so. Pretty impressive.

Damage is extensive, but nothing structural, thankfully. Lots of fences, trees, and signs down, and debris everywhere. I'm not looking forward to going to work and seeing the damage there. :(

So here I sit, running my Powerbook off its battery and using dial-up. I'm probably going to relocate to where the generator is for extended runtime; luckily the weather is nice and cool so no suffering in the heat for now...