Well, I thought I'd spent all I was going to spend, and then the power went out yesterday. I couldn't cook dinner, and DH wasn't thrilled about the idea of a salad, so we ended up ordering a pizza.
The scary part came in when, after dinner, the power came back on for just a few seconds and then we heard yelling outside. A power line came down two houses up from us and was burning on the ground. Not only was it quite a fire, but the sound was unbelievable. Even inside our house, we could hear it--kind of like the humming of a huge machine of some kind. But no harm done, and the power was back on for good just before dark.
We had an outage back on July 4th, too, and ended up getting our cheeseburgers at Wendy's. There are lots of times we end up getting take-out in the midst of some emergency; medical things, cars breaking down, snowstorms. And I never know whether to count it as regular food spending or to take it out of the Emergency Fund. This time I'll call it an Everyday Expense and count it as part of August.
Scary power outage, how to categorize the spending?
July 29th, 2006 at 05:41 pm
July 29th, 2006 at 11:15 pm 1154211340
July 30th, 2006 at 02:00 am 1154221228
I suppose it might be a good idea to get a grill, if just for emergencies... maybe something will turn up on clearance.
July 30th, 2006 at 06:49 am 1154238540
i am glad every one is safe,, and that everything turned out alright.
also, when the power goes out, see ifyou can get some gallons of water at the store, freeze them at a friends, and then put them in your freezer.
July 30th, 2006 at 11:34 pm 1154298886