Heyyy who else is still stuck in the last 13.5% of Florida without lights?

Me bargaining with my phone not to die while it's at 1%

ig running the generator at night is way more unsafe than
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sleeping with the front door open at the foot of it while the glassless screen remains closed.
i'm glad my parents have such good priorities.

the outage map no longer shows my neighborhood as out and yet our power lines are still downed. =) this is great. i'm doing fine. i'm so glad i get to spend my entire vacation without lights and there's no way my mh is so far into the ground that talking about it would actually require about 3 trigger warnings.

Also if anyone wants to take notice of the cake here is a place, if you want

So about those lights...everyone around us is up, but because our front side neighbor won't attend to his meter pole, TECO won't connect us.

I can't believe it's my birthday tomorrow and I'm going to be the most miserable. No way to bathe aside from washcloths and cold water, no way to wash my hair, nowhere to go. Mental health? Bad.

late, but i made a toplevel for the event that's already ended.

the electric company is predicting they'll have power restored to all areas by THURSDAY. i can tell you for fucking free i will not make it to thursday without a fucking shower or air conditioning

I'm ok. There's a lot of tree damage but the house is fine. Communication will be near to nothing because we're without power or net, and the phone can barely connect. This will have taken hours to post if it goes thru.