GOOD MORNING GC!!! I am so extactically happy to have power again! Our power was out for at least 36 hours. It went out on thursday around 4pm and came back on this morning.
I live about 25 minutes out of Detroit and, as for Michigan, it effected the whole southeastern/metro area, up to Lansing, and out as far as Ann Arbor. I went out to get a pizza right after it happened because I didn't realize it was anything serious. Boy was I wrong! Traffic was gridlocked in the start of rush hour traffic and people were just being obnoxious because they didn't know to treat lights as four-way-stops. Luckily I just had to drive around the corner so I didn't get stuck.
The worst was the heat and lack of light. Thank goodness for corded phones, flashlights, candles, ricketty old radios, and cold basements. We stayed inside, played cards and board games all day, listening to the news updates. Luckily, we had plenty of bottled water and weren't effected too severely by the water conservation. We still took showers, albeit very very short ones. Yesterday, my mother started cooking all the meat in the frig and freezer, afraid she'd loose it. She told us stories about how things were back in Cuba and we talked about how much we rely on power now.
I'm just glad the worst outage in American History is OVER!
