Tuesday, November 16, 2004
What a weekend!
Wow! This was quite a weekend, and I am about to tell you in what will probably be the most rambling and gramatically incorrect thing you will ever read...but here goes!
It all started on Saturday night when Greg (Dub) and I were sitting in my house and heard a loud BANG and a huge flash of red light from outside, and the lights flickered. Then we heard Amanda yelling to us :
Amanda: FIRE!!!!
Me & Greg: Call the fire department!!!!
Amanda: I don't know the number!!!!
Me & Greg: 9-1-1!!!!
Amanda: That actually works??!!
It turns out that the power lines outside our house exploded and the tree beside them caught fire. Amanda did call the fire department, and when they drove up to where the fire (which was now just glowing wire) was, they pulled out two pylons and set them underneath the glowing wire...apparently pylons will stop the fire and make the wire safe. About an hour later the same thing happened again, and once again the fire department came (Amanda knew to who to call this time), and the pylons were checked to see that they were still in their proper place - who knew that another fire would take place with the pylons there.! We all go to sleep - end of Saturday night.
In the middle of the night, we are awaken by yet another loud exploding sound, and the power goes out. We hear loud rumbling sounds that we think are trucks outside to fix the power lines. So now the power is out, and I am supposed to work at 8:30 in the morning. I keep waking up and checking Greg's watch to make sure I don't oversleep, because maybe they will still need me at work even though there is no electricity. I finally leave for work and find out that the loud truck sound isn't a truck working on the power lines at all, but is really just the generator at the old folks' home at the end of the street. I get to work, only to be told to go back home because of the lack of electricity. Jeffrey came home that morning and told us that the entire Valley is out of power and that it may not be back for a few days!! HOLY SHIT! So me and my roomies spent the rest of the day building awesome snowforts and having a snowball fight! That night we went to meal hall for supper, because they were giving away free food, and when we were leaving (probably around 630-7ish) we looked up at where tower is, and you could not see it! It was like there was nothing there....it was sooo creepy, but was one of my favorite things about the weekend. Later that night, me, Greg and Jeffrey decided to stroll the dark streets of Wolfville...and what did we find out?? Joe's was open! And it was packed! Walking down Main street were large groups of people all herding to Joe's. Meanwhile, Matty, who is supposed to be working, is at home just laying around on the couch - lazy bastard (hehe...just joking matty). (Matt also likes to tell the tale of how he stepped out on to Main Street just as the power was going off - he loved it! ) The rest of Sunday night was spent watching movies until our laptop batteries died one by one.
Now it is Monday and there is still now power....so we decided to go to Halifax! The girls piled into Carolyn's car, and the boys took the bus. We all ended up and Dan and Adam's place where we played poker, and video games, and had showers ---the shower was great considering I hadn't had one in a few days. That night a few of us went out to Maxwell's Plum (i hope that's the name)...it was the first time I had ever been there, and I really liked it - it has tonnes of different kinds of beer, and the best part is, you can eat peanuts and then throw the shells on the floor after!! Matty also wanted to take the hot "barmaid" home - they laughed, they chatted, Matty pretended to be british and she bought it...hehe. Now, the worst part about Monday, was as soon as we got to Hali, we found out that Acadia had gotten power back! Which meant that we had to come back today....guess they got the power back sooner than they thought.
So that was the crazy powerless weekend in Wolfville.
It all started on Saturday night when Greg (Dub) and I were sitting in my house and heard a loud BANG and a huge flash of red light from outside, and the lights flickered. Then we heard Amanda yelling to us :
Amanda: FIRE!!!!
Me & Greg: Call the fire department!!!!
Amanda: I don't know the number!!!!
Me & Greg: 9-1-1!!!!
Amanda: That actually works??!!
It turns out that the power lines outside our house exploded and the tree beside them caught fire. Amanda did call the fire department, and when they drove up to where the fire (which was now just glowing wire) was, they pulled out two pylons and set them underneath the glowing wire...apparently pylons will stop the fire and make the wire safe. About an hour later the same thing happened again, and once again the fire department came (Amanda knew to who to call this time), and the pylons were checked to see that they were still in their proper place - who knew that another fire would take place with the pylons there.! We all go to sleep - end of Saturday night.
In the middle of the night, we are awaken by yet another loud exploding sound, and the power goes out. We hear loud rumbling sounds that we think are trucks outside to fix the power lines. So now the power is out, and I am supposed to work at 8:30 in the morning. I keep waking up and checking Greg's watch to make sure I don't oversleep, because maybe they will still need me at work even though there is no electricity. I finally leave for work and find out that the loud truck sound isn't a truck working on the power lines at all, but is really just the generator at the old folks' home at the end of the street. I get to work, only to be told to go back home because of the lack of electricity. Jeffrey came home that morning and told us that the entire Valley is out of power and that it may not be back for a few days!! HOLY SHIT! So me and my roomies spent the rest of the day building awesome snowforts and having a snowball fight! That night we went to meal hall for supper, because they were giving away free food, and when we were leaving (probably around 630-7ish) we looked up at where tower is, and you could not see it! It was like there was nothing there....it was sooo creepy, but was one of my favorite things about the weekend. Later that night, me, Greg and Jeffrey decided to stroll the dark streets of Wolfville...and what did we find out?? Joe's was open! And it was packed! Walking down Main street were large groups of people all herding to Joe's. Meanwhile, Matty, who is supposed to be working, is at home just laying around on the couch - lazy bastard (hehe...just joking matty). (Matt also likes to tell the tale of how he stepped out on to Main Street just as the power was going off - he loved it! ) The rest of Sunday night was spent watching movies until our laptop batteries died one by one.
Now it is Monday and there is still now power....so we decided to go to Halifax! The girls piled into Carolyn's car, and the boys took the bus. We all ended up and Dan and Adam's place where we played poker, and video games, and had showers ---the shower was great considering I hadn't had one in a few days. That night a few of us went out to Maxwell's Plum (i hope that's the name)...it was the first time I had ever been there, and I really liked it - it has tonnes of different kinds of beer, and the best part is, you can eat peanuts and then throw the shells on the floor after!! Matty also wanted to take the hot "barmaid" home - they laughed, they chatted, Matty pretended to be british and she bought it...hehe. Now, the worst part about Monday, was as soon as we got to Hali, we found out that Acadia had gotten power back! Which meant that we had to come back today....guess they got the power back sooner than they thought.
So that was the crazy powerless weekend in Wolfville.
// posted by M-J @ 9:33 PM 
