Written by: Julie 10/19/2009 6:18 PM
This morning at 7 am I was sitting at my kitchen table reading through the latest Facebook postings on my account. Suddenly there was a loud boom from outside somewhere and the power went out immediately. My father-in-law who is visiting from out of town walked in from the living room and said that he thought a transformer had blown. I called the power company and had a nice conversation with their automated phone system. I am convinced that Centerpoint Energy only employs two people to answer all the phone calls for the entire Houston region. Only a portion of our neighborhood lost power. So I spent the first half of the day working from my laptop at the local Hastings coffee shop since they have convenient electrical plugs for laptops and extremely nice baristas working behind the counter. Power was restored around 11:30 am. I meandered back to my home office where I proceeded to work the rest of the day. And that was the extent of the annoyances for the day. Hope everyone else had a good. day. Julie
This morning at 7 am I was sitting at my kitchen table reading through the latest Facebook postings on my account.
Suddenly there was a loud boom from outside somewhere and the power went out immediately. My father-in-law who is visiting from out of town walked in from the living room and said that he thought a transformer had blown.
I called the power company and had a nice conversation with their automated phone system. I am convinced that Centerpoint Energy only employs two people to answer all the phone calls for the entire Houston region.
Only a portion of our neighborhood lost power. So I spent the first half of the day working from my laptop at the local Hastings coffee shop since they have convenient electrical plugs for laptops and extremely nice baristas working behind the counter.
Power was restored around 11:30 am. I meandered back to my home office where I proceeded to work the rest of the day. And that was the extent of the annoyances for the day. Hope everyone else had a good. day.
Julie
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