Blueish Skies
Running Creeks Sat Sept 18th Compared to Friday, Saturday was a beautiful morning Sun Sept 19th Friday night's rain which took out our power, also took out the scheduled 18:55 ferry, which was cancelled. So just as well Nick and Lizzie postponed coming over - it would have been a long wait at the ferry terminal. With news reports during Thursday suggesting there could be power cuts, Fred bought a camping gas-lamp (the last one in the shop) and candles during her shopping trip on Friday morning. Just as well. At 5pm on Friday there was a loud bang outside and we lost power. We didn't anticipate needing them quite so soon. It felt quite cosy without electric lighting. Fortunately the gas hob and gas log fire still worked. We were comfortable, but turned in early not wanting to drain phone batteries. BC Hydro engineers turned up just after 01:00 driving up and down the lane in the heavy rain using powerful lights to check the overhead ca...