Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights

And the fridge, the internet, and everything else.

Photo by Alexander Jawfox on Unsplash

Around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, about the time the weather watch beeped on my cell phone, the power went out. I had not been awake long, having tutored online until 2 a.m. the night before, and I never got to open the notification. I had no idea we were under a tornado warning until Frank hooked up the generator around 6…