Thirty-Eighth Entry

Major drama in the early AM in my neighborhood!! The power went out at approximately 1:30 am. Total darkness throughout the hood. I fumbled around looking for candles and found my stash of Jesus candles in the laundry room. I lit one of them. I heard my brother coming downstairs. He wanted to go to Walgreens to buy Aloe Vera lotion for the major sunburn he got in Bakersfield. We went to Walgreens. On the way back, we saw that the power was still out and we saw a PG&E truck driving down Fairway in the direction of the Marina. We decided to investigate. PG&E guy got to the end of the road and U-turned back the other way. We got to the end of the road and saw police cars and flares set up down towards El Torito. Being the nosy humans that we are, we head down that way and have to cut through the Marina Inn parking lot cuz the flares were blocking the road. We parked at a safe distance from the accident(not sure if we would get into trouble for getting too close) and hoofed it to the police scene.

It was a car crash!! Some car, hit a power pole, knocking it over, ran onto the sidewalk, taking out a bunch of shrubs with it, and somehow ended up facing the opposite direction and on its side. Major drama!! There were no ambulances or anything, so we can assume that all the medical stuff happened before we could get there. We got pretty close to the wreck; the police did not seem to mind. The policeman actually told us to watch out for the power lines that were down, but not live. We overheard them say to one another that there was a gas leak out of the car. Very cool.

We came back home and found my mom awake with a bunch of candles all over the house. Fred went to bed, but I stayed awake and made scrambled eggs...with no power!!! It was interesting...it kinda felt like that show "1900 House".

I ate and started to fall asleep on the sofa downstairs when the power came back on. Hallelujah!! It was 4am. The power was out for 2.5 hours.

I went upstairs and went to sleep.

I awoke this morning to the incessant barking of the dog next door. God I hate neighbors dogs.

It was really windy today. I should have gone to fly my kite today. Oh well. Bowling tonight!!!!!