Power
Saturday, 2:30 AM. I woke up and felt like something was not quite right. Got up and noticed that the microwave clock was off. That is our only indicator when the power goes out. Everything else switches to house batteries and keeps running until the 4 batteries die...maybe 36 hours.
Jim woke up and did a bit of investigating and it wasn't just us...our whole level of campground was black. So since it was cool and quiet we went back to sleep and thought it would be back up in the morning. Wrong!
The first call to the manager got a reply of, "the power company will be out Monday." Yikes! Others in the neighborhood got the answer that SCE was on their way or that they'd be out in 2 hours. Starting to sound fishy.
So we turned off just about everything to conserve the batteries. Kept the ceiling fan going. Switched the frig and water heater to gas and hoped it wouldn't get too warm. Wrong!
We've been having midday temps of 95-100 so our routine has been to have the windows open until it reaches about 85 late in the morning then turn on the AC until early evening. Then it cools down enough at night to have all windows open again. But that scenario wouldn't work so when it got hot what else does a good SoCal girl do but go shopping! Our hopes were up that the power would be on when we got back. Wrong.
The manager said we could move to another site with power but we really like our site 23 view so thought we'd hold out hope. So no TV or movies or music. No fresh ground Starbucks coffee. No fruit smoothies. No AC. The sounds of silence were marred by the sound of several generators charging up batteries.
Sunday we visited with the kids and enjoyed their AC. Came home in the early evening with high hopes. Not. So Ok. We decided to move on Monday if no power.
Magically in the early AM hours of Monday the power blipped back on. Now my theory is that we were all being scammed and that someone just had to come into work on Monday and throw a switch to get us all going again. Of course, as with all power mysteries, we'll never know the real story.