Here We Go Again!

As I write this post, the wind outside is blowing literally 60 mph. That's bad enough, but unfortunately this wind is following a very significant ice storm that occurred only 2 weeks ago. The ice storm was severe enough that numerous trees were destroyed and even more were damaged. In fact, city crews are still busy picking up downed tree limbs from the ice storm and crews have just recently finished getting all their electric customers re-connected.

This evening, I received a call from one of my low income tenants at the Pink Elephant (one of my apartment buildings). The tenant told me that the wind had knocked the electrical line down and that it was sparking. I called the electric company to report the incident and then drove down to the building to check things out and ensure that the tenants didn't electrocute themselves. When I arrived at the building, the first thing I noticed was that the lights were on. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the only thing that had happened was that a tree limb had fallen on a phone line and knocked it down. It certainly wasn't "sparking" and never had been. As often happens with low-income tenants, they were exaggerating! Therefore, I ensured that the phone company had been called and came home.

This afternoon, before all the excitement started with the storm, I went to Lowes for parts and then worked on my one bedroom apartment. No big deal. Tomorrow, I'm planning to finish the trim work on the laminate floor I installed yesterday.