I hate PSO

Ever since the ice storm (or around that time), if there is a droplet of rain or a slightly windy day, our power goes out. It's really annoying. So it is almost a guarantee that if we get a full blown thunderstorm that there's a good possibility that our power will be out for more than an hour or two. Sunday night was no different.

We were sound asleep in the wees hours of Monday morning (2:30 am to be exact) when a very loud thunderclap rolled through...loud enough to scare the bajeezus out of anyone. A bright orange light followed and then our house went dark. Mike and I have never moved so quickly in our lives. We ran to the front door to see what had caught fire-we were sure something outside had been struck by lightning. No fire. Thank you Lord. We looked to the end of our street and both perpendicular streets had power. Not us. Ugh.

We finally go back to sleep in the pitch black and awaken in the morning for work only to be greeted by continuous rain and no electricity. I ended up fixing my hair at work because I was so annoyed by the candle light. By 4:30 Monday afternoon we still didn't have power and they were estimating an 11:00 pm completion time. So we ate dinner. In the dark. Twiddled our thumbs and stared at each other. In the dark. Then decided to just go to bed. By 11:00 or a little after the power finally came back on.

So yesterday we discovered that when the transformer blew, it killed our surround sound, our DVR box, all of our phones, and our garage door. As a note of gratitude to PSO, we want to send them a "You suck" card. And Mike wants to add some creativity to the inside of the card, which will remain unsaid.

We hate PSO.