ANA Y2 D90

Holy hell the last couple of days have been insane. We finally got power back on around 3pm yesterday and then at 10pm it started storming again! Okay, let's back up. Wednesday. Wednesday I delivered the workshop I have been building to internal folks and it went over super well. That was the good news. At the same time I have been hustling and reaching out to contacts to sell more training and see who would hire me. I have a lead on the latter. I have to put my resume together this weekend and get it into this person's hands by Monday morning. It's at an AI company based in DC but 100% remote work. Perfect for me. I don't know what kind of roles they have, but it's worth checking out. C worked from 2-9. She brought home calzones for us and as we sat eating and watching some TV, BOOM, the sky ripped open. It was insane. A storm like I have never seen. We both started freaking out a bit and shut everything down. Turns out that was a smart move. At 1:15am lightning directly hit the substation that supplies us power. Gone. We then tossed and turned until about 6am because it was so fucking hot we had to keep the windows open but then we got rained on and then the silence was too much - just a rough night all around. 

Got up and tried to find out information. I didn't learn of the substation issue until about 9 or 10. I was watching the outage map and when I first checked it 51,000 were without power. However, as people woke up, that number started growing due to reports. Within a few hours it was up to 59,000. I knew it wasn't coming back on any time soon. Around 9 or 10 I get the call from DTE explaining what happened and return time was "unknown". I let my bosses know and that's when things went wonky. You see, I was supposed to deliver a webinar yesterday. But has no power so how deliver webinar? Well.... Next thing you know we are off to a Regus office space. Turns out we have a membership. It was cheaper ($70) to have me sit in an office from 12-5 instead of rescheduling. Okay. I do what I am told. We drove off and sat in a little rented office space where I delivered my webinar. Had over 150 people which made it very worthwhile and I get why they didn't want to reschedule. 

Finished that up, came home, and yay power is back! We had dinner on the company last night, nothing fancy, just Savvy Sliders. Then we relaxed. At least until 10 when it started all over again. Seriously, the sky ripped open a second night. We shut everything down again and laid in bed listening to the apocalypse outside our window. Luckily no power outage this time but we did get tornado warnings. Joy. 

So far things seem calm this morning. Going to up some windows and doors and let air in. Need to check for damage from last night too. Fun times in the midwest.