Let there be light
We got our 5th visit yesterday from the electric company. I tried
appealing to this guy's sense of duty by casually mentioning that we've
had four other
visits, each ending with a bit of looking around and head
scratching at how deep our creek is.
"I didn't come all the way from North Carolina to just look around," he
calmly stated. His confidence filled us with with a newfound hope and
sure to his word the lines were back up before he headed back home last
night.
We spent the morning waiting, trying not to think of all the obstacles
that could be keeping the flow of cheap electricity from coming back to
our trailer when all of a sudden the hallway light came on and the
power outage of 2009 was officially over.
It's good to know we can get by without the grid, but this has been a
wake up call for us by pointing out a few areas we can improve upon for
a
more streamlined approach to off the grid living.
This post is part of our Two Weeks Without Electricity series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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