Edmund Schweppe

More thunderstorms this afternoon. Also, a fortunately brief loss of power; presumably one of the system's automatic transferring dinguses successfully transferred this time.

Many of the branches and trees downed by the Friday storms are still lying about, waiting to be collected. Not to mention all the pine cones that haven't been ground to mush by local traffic.

Today is the hottest day of the year so far. So of course the power is starting to flicker. It's been dropping on and off since around 3:30 this afternoon. At the moment, it's on. However, Eversource (the local utility company) just sent me a message that they are "We are aware of an outage in the area of [my address] affecting approximately 2233 customer(s). Based on our experience with these types of events, we expect to restore power by 07/20 06:45 PM."

I'm guessing this isn't a simple instance of someone knocking down a pole, but rather one or more pieces of infrastructure failing under load. Hopefully it's a reasonably quick fix, once they figure it out. On the other hand, looking at their outage map, there's a whole bunch of outages in the area, so maybe not.

Meanwhile, ARRRGH!