November Storm



The Cedar tree tumbled on a car
in Covington, WA

This was the third power outages I've experienced since I live in America. The thing that I like is the way the government handled this, especially the DOT (Department of Transportation). 'Service' is always excellent in here in terms of cleaning up the branches, tumbling trees which knocked down the power lines, and the technician who work 24 hours to make the power back on. I can't imagine if this was happening in Indonesia, the Java-Bali main power electricity always slow, and when you live in Java, Indonesia and you see the sky's scary dark and cloudy and ...then the light spark making incredible view, well you have to be aware, because even before the rain's coming down, the power electricity will out right away, and we never know when the power will be back, sometimes in just short time, but many times, we had to wait hours and hours...before we could say...hurraaaay!'''like what I did when I was kid with my siblings!.
Okay, Monday night, November 15th, the wind was getting stronger and stronger and you could hear the scary sound. I saw from the window, it's really crazy, nobody outside, we're lucky that Grace, our daughter went to bed on time, and I turned on her slumber machine, and I choosed the 'rain' theme, hoping that she wouldn't hear  the sound of the wind. I read magazine and my husband still infront of the computer and that was really the sound of the biggest windstorm I've ever heard in here. I kept thinking the big and tall of pine tree outside in our backyard, please please don't fall down into the Grace's window..! And tadaaaa!..at precisely 9 o'clock the power out. No heater in Grace's room for 8 hours, she woke up at about 1:30's and when she notice that the milk I gave to her wasn't warm, because I couldn't use the microwave, she said 'no,..no, not so much..!'...(yes, it's funny when she refuses something, she'll say that!)...but she quickly back to sleep, thanks God.
Finally after on and off sleeping, (well, like most moms out there, I thought about our stuff in the freezer) the power back on close to 5 o'clock, it's so good, I always think about how deep human being right now depend on the electricity.
I saw the morning news, turned out about 200,000 power outages in Western Washington, and about 30,000 were in Pierce County where we live, we're so lucky that we had black out only for 8 hours, because other places still without power!.
The second round of windstorm happend again on Wednesday, this time more in the day time, but not as scary as on Monday.