My power company, which stretches in a thin strip from northernmost Maine to the area around Bar Harbor, Maine, has 164,000 customers. This morning 30 minutes after my morning coffee brewed automatically, I lost power along with 68,000 other customers.. By 11 PM only 7300 customers are without power so they did a good job restoring the grid after a terrible overnight wind storm.
Both my little farm up here and the saltwater farm I bought near Bar Harbor have been plagued with power outages. Here I have the largest portable generator, you can buy and down there we invested in a standby automatic generator.
I woke up to darkness this morning thinking I need to get out there and get the generator going to get some coffee, but my coffee had already been made so I could relax and drink my 1st cup before starting the generator.
It keeps you humble to be subject to the elements because you’re living in the northern extremes or near the coastal weather systems.
Here is a post I wrote about loss of power in my very first year of blogging.
A Country Doctor Writes: 
0 Responses to “Power Outage”