Thursday, August 03, 2006
Smart Car!
The Sentra prevented me from taking everyone to the office to be comfortably air conditioned today.
Well… sometime in the 1:00 - 2:00 hour, power went out to the entire town where the office is (and possibly more spottily some surrounding areas), and shows no signs of being restored. Sadly, I was also unable to go to the bank and make my deposit I deferred yesterday rather than venture out when it was 100+ and ultra-humid.
If the car had worked, we’d have had to return home early anyway.
I ventured up there because I needed to go to the bank, hoping the outage wasn’t that widespread (it’s a three mile drive from the office), and we left some stuff there that we needed at home. The idea was I’d check the servers if power had returned, or hang out a while in case, but given how severe it was, waiting would have been as futile as last night, when the power came back on after 11:00, 5 - 6 hours after going out. Not to mention that today’s expected thunderstorms haven’t arrived yet.
Smart car. Like it knew going would be pointless.