Power Outage - Again!

As we were drinking coffee and catching up on the news this morning there was a loud bang - and then the power went out. But the refrigerator was still on…. I wasn’t able to get through on the app because the internet wasn’t working, and I didn’t have the phone number to call Old Dominion power to report the outage. So we decided to go for our morning walk and see if the phone worked outside. And it did. So I got on the app and reported the outage and it said the cause was “pending investigation” and it should be corrected by five PM. Usually the cause is something a little more specific. We are getting familiar with this process because it has happened at least 5-6 times since we moved to northern Virginia. It was also one of the first questions I asked about the building. And the answer was we would have a building generator. The trouble is is that the building generator only supports the emergency building items like the elevator and hallway lights - not inside of the condo units. Luckily heat nor air conditioning is needed at this time and it was morning and daylight. We saw the power trucks parked around the very ugly power poles on our way back to the house. We ran in to another building resident and he said some of the units had lights while others didn’t; some had hot water and others didn’t, etc. Apparently everyone who needed to be contacted was and it was just a matter of time. So we took the car out for a short ride and on the way back we received a notice that the power was on followed by a phone call saying the same. The odd thing is that only one clock needs to be reset in the house. This was the strangest power outage. Why it only affected parts of the building will remain a mystery. All we know it was due to a “foreign object” - whatever that means.