Friday 15 December, 2006
Leaving the darkeness
Well, after the winds reached near-hurricane levels last night, we were one of the 230,000 homes in lower mainland to lose power. We woke up sometime during the night with the incredible loud sounds of wind banging... the windows, I guess, the railings in the balcony... it sounded like a window broke downstairs.
In the morning after the alarm went off I got up from bed, wondered why it was so cold, and looked outside - most of West End was black. Our living room, black. So no power, no heating... so I went back to bed which was the only warm place left and sent a text message to work that I would be late. After an hour it was light enough and I was bored enough to get up and light some candles, find clothes in the dark and leave for work. No, I couldn't take a shower nor look at myself in the mirror. Luckily we had some (spare) power in the building that lights in the corridors and in the staircase were on - so I didn't have to climb down from 23rd floor in the dark, that would have been unpleasant. I just truly hope the power will be back by the time get home, or at the latest when we have to get to the airport as I don't look forward dragging the suitcases down those stairs.
With these thoughts from windy Vancouver, kolibri signing off. I'll move D/k to Eastern European Time and next time I'll be blogging from Finland... if you're there, see you soon-ish.
Posted by kolibri at 15 December 10:19, 2006Wow, Vancouver has certainly had its share of hardships during the last few months. I hope this won't affect your trip to Finland - although the weather here is hardly pleasant either I'm afraid. And we've even been predicted gales this weekend!
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