What you get when you complain about only having 5 channels

Ya lose 2 of 'em.

Yep. We haven't been able to get in the 2 NBC channels (the regular NBC and the local weather NBC) since Friday night. We are still getting the 3 PBS channels in fine, so apparently there is something wrong with their transmission.

We had a big storm, which went from rain to freezing rain to snow on Friday and lots of people were without power. The news on Friday night (the last time we were able to watch news the old fashioned way) said that about 2000 people had no power in the area. We were lucky. Until Saturday morning.

Saturday morning: I look at the time (almost 8am), notice the nightlight glowing in the corner of the bedroom (OK, the real story was that my toddler, sans blanket sleeper, climbed under the chair to try to pry the nightlight out of the socket, while trying to grab said sleeper and pull her out, I realized sleeper was not on her. So I shot out of bed, found her sleeper and put it back on her, then) headed to the bathroom with my little girl and when I flipped the light switch nothing happened. I walked out into the kitchen and everything was off. We have strange issues with our kitchen power, like we can't run the microwave and the dishwasher at the same time, otherwise we blow a fuse. So, thinking we were having an electrical issue, I did my business and flushed the toilet... I made my way through spider webs to the fuse box and saw that none of them were tripped. I found the one I thought was the kitchen and flipped it off and back on. When I got back to the kitchen everything was still off.

I was freaking out thinking that there was something horribly wrong with our electric wiring and we were going to have to call an electrician. I did the next best thing and woke up my husband. He went down and started flipping switches. Then he came back up and asked if all the power was out. I told him that the nightlight and alarm clock were on in the bedroom. He went to verify. Of course the clock was blank and the nightlight wasn't on... In an amazing coincidence our power had gone off somewhere during my walk to the bathroom... What are the odds of that?...figures.

The worst thing about the power outage: I flushed the toilet. We have well water, so when the electricity is out, so is the well pump... we have exactly enough water for one flush of the toilet. We had to pack everyone up to go get coffee. Had I not flushed, the water in the Bunn reservoir would have still been hot enough to make a pot of coffee with the year or more old ground coffee I dredged up from the freezer. I should really buy a bag of decent ground coffee for just an emergency.

Needless to say, we are now getting all of our news from Google and Facebook ;) Isn't that what everyone else does these days anyway?