{"id":1096,"date":"2011-08-29T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2011-08-29T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T14:49:58","slug":"powerless-thanks-to-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/powerless-thanks-to-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerless, Thanks to Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1099\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1099\" title=\"cob 017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cob-017-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cob-017-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cob-017-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wires Very Down<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re among the 700,000+ in Connecticut who are without power since Irene hit, and I expect we&#8217;ll be this way for quite some time.\u00a0 Fortunately:<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re all fine.<br \/>\nOur neighbors are all fine.<br \/>\nWe were able to rig a siphon so the sump pump can drain down a pipe in the basement instead of overflowing.<br \/>\nWe still have water.<br \/>\nThe UConn Library is open so I can post this and spend the day with my computer plugged in so I can work.<br \/>\nI can probably take a shower later in my daughter&#8217;s dorm.<br \/>\nWe were able to fill the drawers of the fridge with ice, making it an &#8220;ice box&#8221; and slow the spoiling of our food.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s a little weird around here.\u00a0 I finally learned how to play Texas Hold &#8216;Em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re among the 700,000+ in Connecticut who are without power since Irene hit, and I expect we&#8217;ll be this way for quite some time.\u00a0 Fortunately: We&#8217;re all fine. Our neighbors are all fine. We were able to rig a siphon so the sump pump can drain down a pipe in the basement instead of overflowing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}