Lately, I've been watching shows like The Walking Dead and Revolution where there are people who defend themselves, survive, and have no power. Saturday night, Brett and I experienced the latter and thank goodness we didn't have zombies or tyrants after us.
It was two hours before we were to go to our church Christmas Party and it was raining. I was vacuuming to prepare for guest to come over the next day. While I was running the vacuum, Brett had plugged in the carpet cleaner in the same light socket. I had the thought to tell him to wait until I was done, but I decided to let it be since I was about to finish. 30 seconds later, everything turns off!
Brett and I go to our the electricity box, flip some switches, and the power won't turn on. We go to another box by our garage that has the main circuit and turn that off. We waited a couple of minutes and turned the breaker back on. Basically, the power would not come on with everything we tried to do.
Brett gets on the phone, calls Edison, they tell us to call our home warranty people, we call Home Warranty, and they tell us they will try to find a electrician to come out on a Saturday night. Well after 90 minutes and our neighbors trying to help us, I made the decision that I needed to save our food because I had responsibilities at the Christmas party. I grabbed the most important stuff like milk, eggs, egg whites, and chicken and ran over to Michelle Pierce's (our neighbor and a church member) and she graciously helped me out.
We decided to go to the party since the church building is one minute away and await the call from the electrician. Home Warranty did call us back 20 minutes later and told us that no one would be coming out until possibly tomorrow. After the party, Brett and I went home, grabbed all our food in the freezer, and drove to his parent's house in Hacienda Heights.
On Sunday, we still did not have power and when I took a shower there wasn't any hot water (terrible). Brett decided to stay home from church to get an electrician there. I went to church and while I was there, Brett text me that no one had come yet. I had heard there was an electrician in our ward, Darryl Outhier, and so I sought him out. I told him the problem and he said he would come by.
When I came home from church, Darryl was already there with Brett working on the box. Within 10 minutes, he had turned our power back on after nearly 20 hours without it. Darryl was our hero on Sunday and Brett and I couldn't be more grateful for him, our neighbors, family, and power. Crazy!
(And if you are wondering we still haven't heard back from Home Warranty to fix our circuit breaker.)
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