The Lambert Ohana: Blackout

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Blackout

Last night while playing with all our Christmas goodies we noticed our lights flickering, and thought we might be experiencing a "brown out." With all the electronics making weird noises, Chris turned everything off, including computer and modem, Wii, TV, even the AC and fridge. Yikes! What do we DO without electronics?!?! We left on the flickering lamps and played board games, and had some good old fashioned family bonding time. Finally at 8:30 everything went black for good. Since our move we still haven't found our flashlights, so we lit a few candles to help us in the dark. The kids were a little scared, so we had a camp-out in mom and dad's room. I took this picture in the complete dark, so when the flash went off it lit up the whole house. Notice the little toy flashlight Dallin is holding. It's the only one we could find.

We feel fortunate that the power was only off for a total of about 6 hours, whereas much of the island was out for up to 18 hours. This blackout really showed our family how much we are NOT prepared for an emergency. I guess that is something we will be working on here in the near future.

1 comment:

Rachel said...: Your kids are like mine, they always want to sleep with us in a blackout. Even if we have big lanterns for them each to take to their rooms, they are usually scared to go alone!; December 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM

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