Power is out at the Bolt Hole. Not surprising since the winds started howling around 11 PM last night and there were gusts that I would guess registered in the 40 mph range. They've abated a bit as dawn arrived.
The phone lines are obviously still working, however.
It used to be this sort of problem would be solved quite quickly when we had more working dairy farms in the region bu tin the last few years I know of at least two that have stopped operations. One switched over to growing crops--soy beans, corn, wheat and rye. It's an easier operation for an aging farmer and now his son who has an outside job. Another went purely residential. (No, it didn't get carved up as a development, but it was sold and no longer is a working farm. In fact, it is now on the market again.) With the loss of those two larger dairy herds, there's not the same pressure to get electricity back for milking and refrigeration.
Add the fact that this is likely a very wide spread problem (if you watched the game from Cleveland last night you would know that) and repairs might take some time.
Not a day to be walking in the woods where falling branches and widow makers abound.
I'll be back when they get power back.
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