This entry is for Katherine

I'm playing a game of Chicken with Chicago winter. My alarm is set to NPR, and every morning I wake up to the weather forecast. Each day in the last week it's been 5 degrees colder. First it was 20, then 15, then 9, then 4, and finally yesterday it was -2. A new record. Yippee.

Last night, I left work on time for once, excited about spending a nice, quiet evening in my apartment with a home-cooked meal. I walked into my building and checked my mail, then hit the elevator button. As I was waiting, the doorman said, as if commenting on the weather, "Oh, the power is out in some of the apartments in the building. But the water is back on."

So, of course, my apartment is one of the ones without power. I did have heat, thankfully, due to the radiators, and the light from my downtown view was helpful, but it wasn't quite the evening I had in mind.

Turns out someone was renovating an apartment to sell and one of the workers left a window open. (WHY???) The water in the toilet froze, the toilet broke, and the resulting flood knocked out a transformer.

The electricity came back on around 10:00pm. I thought maybe this morning I'd get a break. And I did - it was above 0! 3 whole degrees!

And snowing. AHH!

Posted by bethdeth at February 6, 2007 09:15 AM