Hurricane Sandy, have mercy

I severely hope I do not lose power in the next 24 hours. Then again, hope is futile, because I most likely will.
I will be the first on my block to lose power.
I will be the first in my town to lose power.
I know this because, even when a storm is not the cause, I always lose power.

 

Three years ago, a microburst (kinda like a disorganized tornado) hit my town. A hundred of trees were ripped out of the ground and oh so conveniently fell on a ton of wires. We didn't have power for a couple days. My friend, who lives on the other side of town, never lost power.

 

Last year, we had an actual tornado. Another hundred trees fell. One tree, whose roots happened to be caught under the shed in our back yard, hadn't quite fallen yet. We were spared for half a day. But when the wind picked up, the tree flipped the shed and fell on the wires. We didn't have power for nine days. My friend, again, never lost power.

 

Earlier this year, we had a sinkhole in the backyard. There was a leak in an underground water pipe and the ground just collapsed. But the hole just happened to be right next to the telephone pole in our back yard. It fell into the sinkhole. We lost power, phone service, and everything else that comes to us by wire.

 

And this one is just the worst. A couple months ago, there was a squirrel. This squirrel was quite stupid. It was running along the wires as squirrels often do when it decided that it wanted to chew on something. So it stoped and chewed through the electricity line. It ended up bad for the squirrel, and bad for our power. But seriously, what squirrel does that?? We were the only house on the block that lost power.

 

I think my house is cursed or something. That can seriously be the only explaination. To make it worse, our family friend, conveniently named Sandy, came up to New York from Florida in order to do the unvailing for his mother who passed last year. He was planning on leaving tommorow. Too bad Sandy made that impossible. So Sandy now is staying at our house until Wednesday, until Sandy has calmed down.

 

I swear, there's something weird going on...