Forced darkness, for some
Enough. Time to go home. With the assistance of son #3, who stayed the night with one of those magic pass cards that hotel employees keep around, we were up before daylight and had the car completely packed without a hiccup. On the road by 05h30. At that hour, you have the full attention of the desk staff.
We know how to get out of the city; early. No traffic, whatsoever. We crossed the bridge and headed east, with only the sunrise ahead. In fact, we were into the next province in less than three hours. Travel conditions were just about perfect. Summer perfect, in fact. Odd, considering what the Maritimes had just received.
In fact, by the time we took a Costco break, the first signals from Island radio were available. Seems that the power was still off in most of the eastern part of the province, two days along. One spokesperson for the utility said “some of the worst conditions in decades, with over seventy poles down”. Not reassuring. I’m unsure just how much autonomy the generator has with those two white tanks.
We detoured around the Cornwall bypass project, via Summerfield, and our first sign of foul weather came up by the Royalty Oaks. I kept an eye all along the way; we could tell that some homes were under forced darkness, but no damage spotted. Made a quick grocery stop in Morell, since they had power.
We were home by suppertime, and apart from another couple of power bumps, all was well. No sign that the generator had don much of anything (I’ll check the run log tomorrow, in daylight. Oil levels, also).
