A Lava Lamp to stare at.

[SMcNeill]

The town of Floyd lost power for about three days here, and they had the grocery stores shut down that whole time, so there wasn't a single place to get groceries locally.   Washed the crap out of our dirt roads once more, and I've got to go fix a few pipes that got washed out by the creeks here on the farm, but overall, I really don't think things were that bad.  A few miles further north, in Giles County, they apparently got slammed hard (which is kinda weird as I would've figured them further out of the track and getting less than us, but I guess that's how these things go sometimes), but as for me personally, it was more a PITA than anything else.

Being a guy into computers and technology and all that jazz, my home probably has every "smart feature" that you can install on it.  Heck, I even have a 2nd router into my primary router, just for all the lightbulbs to connect to the internet so Alex can control them.   *THOSE* are great when they work -- and made me want to set my house on fire the other day during the storm!

Problem with smart bulbs is they connect to your wireless internet.  Power flickers off, and they use connection.  To tell you they're trying to connect, and for you to check to make certain the router is ready, they blink-blink-blink-blink-blink incessantly until they reconnect to the internet. 

The power here flickered on and off a zillion times in this storm, as the wind kept blowing crap onto the powerlines, and that flick off was enough to reboot the router...  Of course, the lights came on as soon as the power did, but the router hadn't made the internet connection yet...  and so blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...   EVERY damn light in my house.   blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...   And then they'd quit once they reconnected to the net... Just for the power to go off and  blink-blink-blink-blink-blink... blink-blink-blink-blink-blink... blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...

blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...

blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...

blink-blink-blink-blink-blink...

GAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Guess who is going out to buy UPS for that damn router/modem later this week??   

So, except for the lack of grocery stores being open and  blink-blink-blink-blink-blink driving me crazy, things really weren't that bad here at home.