Thursday, March 20, 2025

A Mighty Wind

 
by Pa Rock
McBlogger

Another day, another trip to McDonalds to bang out a blog.  The winds hit again yesterday, God almighty did they hit, but this time there were no twisters.  However, the internet  at the Poor Farm did, of course, go down.  I have called to make sure that the company was aware of the outage, and they were, and there is an estimated repair time of 7:00 p.m. today.  I am taking it all very calmly because I know people who are still without power from last Friday night's storms.  Their issues need to be addressed first.  My problem is a trivial inconvenience compared to being without power for nearly a week - and no relief in sight.

Yesterday I saw a utiility crew out next to Highway 63, our major thoroughfare, struggling to keep a power pole from falling down onto the highway.  Whatever compensation those people are making is undoubtedly inadequate.

I don't remember wind being much of an issue before Trump came into office.

Here is my mot recent senior moment:  I am thinking about possibly going to Kansas City this weekend - haven't been there since before Christmas.  In preparation for the trip which may or may not happen, I stopped at a gas station yesterday on my way to cardiac rehab and filled my car's gas tank.  Then, later in the day when I got home from rehab and sat down to the computer  and discovered the latest internet outage, I thought to myselt, hey Pa Rock, why not use this sudden "free time" to go to town and fill the gas tank.  So I did - and when the pump stopped at less than two dollars and I couldn't squeeze any more out of it, the poor pump got a good cussing..  To my credit, I apologized to the pump before getting back in the car and going home - where I obviously belonged!

I blame Trump for that, too!

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