Power cut follies

Fittingly, it being the official start of Summer, most of the US is now under a heat advisory.  This means high nineties, "feels-like" index in the triple digits (because of the extreme humidity).  This was kicked off for us yesterday morning in the pre-dawn hours when we had a massive thunderstorm - lightning, thunder, flash floods, the whole bit.  And it didn't bring down the temperature at all.  Since then it was in the 90s yesterday, so Frederick and I went for our second swim.  On the way home, Jami (who was at work) called to say that the power company had just texted her that "power had just been restored" - which was news to us, as we hadn't been at home (and power was unaffected at work).  "Phew - dodged a bullet there" we thought, because it's always stressful if the power goes out mid-film.  Then we got home and were relaxing when, at 3:30 there was a sudden loss-then-return-then-loss-then-return-then loss of power (in the space of seconds) and... no power.  Funnily (?) enough I had just joked to my mother over Zoom how terrible it would be if the power went out.  Well, we battened down the hatches and sealed up the house and the temperature stayed below 80.  I went into work with the air fryer trying to get power to run it for Frederick's suppertime potatoes, but the power had gone out there (although emergency power was keeping the air conditioning going, a fact I noted in case of emergencies).  Anyway, the power company, having said power would be restored by 8:30 PM (annoyingly, it was for people just one block away), kicked the deadline back to 4:30 AM, so we had to prepare for a hot night.  (I just saw a video online of somebody complaining that it was a sultry 79 degrees in Edinburgh today - well that was the overnight low for us last night.)  I had a brainwave: we went through a spell of getting refrigerated goods though the mail (ask Jami) and I, being the pack rat that I am, saved them all in the freezer we have in the basement.  So I slapped a few inside pillowcases and they were our bedmates, until the power did indeed come back at 2 AM (and of course, the lights all went on in Frederick's room).  But he was a saint through it all.  And we have blissful A/C again.  (But the power's still out at work.)