Friday, the 13th 06.13.14

 

It all seems to have started about 1 minute after midnight, Friday 13^th, 2014. My first wife came to bed about 12:02 and woke me as she got into bed. She noted that it had been raining, “like pouring it out of a boot”. This caused me to listen and there was much loud thunder indicating lightening in the area. I reached for the remote and turned the TV on to see what the storm situation was. The storms had appeared to be south of us when I went to sleep, earlier that night.

                The TV weather indicated a large storm with lots of lightening covering Waco Hewitt and other surrounding towns. I decided to get up and look outside. The back yard looked like a pond ^{(tank in Texas vernacular)}. I went to the front door and the street appeared to be a river at flood stage.

                About 12:30 the lightning was subsiding, that is when, “the power went off”. I got a flash light and worked my way into the garage where I keep a battery powered lantern. I had not charged it in over a year. I was pleasantly surprised, the lantern worked. I set it up in the bed room as a night light and I crawled back into bed.

                At some point during the night I thought about not knowing what time it was. I retrieved my cell phone, set the alarm to go off at 6:00am just in case I was to over sleep. The phone was placed by the bed.

                I woke before the phone alarm went off and rolled out of bed. Knowing the power had been off for 6 hours. I decided to get the generator from the shed and power the fridge and deep freeze.

                What was the first thing I saw when I walked out into the dark world? It was a,                  “Full Moon”. 

 

Think of this; a full moon, Friday the 13^th, major storm, 4.5 inches of rain, and a power outage. Was it a coincidence or does Friday the 13^th have something to do with it?

                The ground was very wet and somewhat difficult to pull the 100 pound generator through the grass. Once the generator was on the driveway, I started the generator and ran a couple extension cords to the fridge and deepfreeze.

                My spouse and I sat outside waiting for the power to come back on. One thing the power outage accomplished, it got several of the neighbors outside talking to each other.

                                                                                                                                   

I hope your Friday the 13^th is    

 

Don Ford

^{I would have finished the last line but I was negatively influenced by Friday 13th.}