{"id":932,"date":"2009-01-29T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/01\/29\/crash-bucket-chronicles-%e2%80%94-day-three\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T00:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:10:38","slug":"crash-bucket-chronicles-%e2%80%94-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/932","title":{"rendered":"Crash Bucket Chronicles \u2014 Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBut all these little vexations and labors would have been nothing\u2014they would have been passed by as the common evils of a sea life, which every sailor, who is a man, will go through without complaint\u2014were it not for the uncertainty, or worse than uncertainty, which hung over the nature and length of our voyage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Richard Henry Dana, Jr.<br \/>\n<em>Two Years Before the Mast<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>We are out of champagne and I&#8217;m stuck my dear&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Water pressure came back around breakfast time. I immediately began filling a bathtub, but forgot about it, and it almost overflowed (my tub is so old it has no safety drain). Still no power, though. More areas of the city have been restored, including Lee and David\u2019s neighborhood, but the whole idea of our benefiting from a downtown priority was in error, because Main Street is back in action with traffic lights and storefront electricity. Obviously, we\u2019re not part of that circuit. More likely, we must pay the price for all the tree damage on Lexington Avenue and the block of Broadway to the west. Fortunately, our new gas water heater is operating again, so at least we now have hot, running water, which makes taking a shower the most inviting development of the day.<br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Two KU trucks were out front for a few minutes and linemen were examining the service connection next door, where the anchor is broken and the conduit is touching the roof of the car port. It looked like a promising sign, but a neighbor told me that the utility guys said what they\u2019re currently working on would not affect this end of the block. I get the notion that nobody considers our area \u201clow-hanging fruit.\u201d I understand they want to restore the greatest number of customers as rapidly as possible, so if one happens to be on an oddball circuit, tough luck. As our house continues to lose its residual warmth, we cling to the idea that we\u2019re on somebody\u2019s checklist.<br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; In the event that it could still be days before we have electricity, I\u2019m starting to urge more conservation of cooking propane, but, at the same time, push for a more open distribution of heat throughout the rest of the house to safeguard pipes. This results in a lower temperature for the main gathering room\u2014not a popular condition to be advocating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut all these little vexations and labors would have been nothing\u2014they would have been passed by as the common evils of a sea life, which every sailor, who is a man, will go through without complaint\u2014were it not for the uncertainty, or worse than uncertainty, which hung over the nature and length of our voyage.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,78,18,8,38,44,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}