Yesterday, I took a nap when it started getting dark, after an early dinner (had to make use of the electricity early), woke up around 7:30, lit some candles, and practiced a little music in the dim light. Before lighting the candles, though, I was struck by the absolute darkness that enveloped my house and the surrounding neighborhood. Usually, the streetlights are on and the neighbors homes leak light of their own. But last night was just pitch. It was a cool feeling, one that reminded me of the week I spent kayaking in Palau with my buddy Dave. And it was actually really nice to fall asleep around 10pm without any distractions to keep me awake.
This morning, showing up at school, things were all over the place, mostly trees and the branches that had been ripped off of them. We had a ceremony to open school for the second term, then we went straight into cleanup. School had it a little worse than my apartment - the water wasn't working. Not only a health risk, but also just unpleasant, students were picked up at 11:30 and that was it. I came to the village office, which while only 1.5km from my house, has full electric output. Clearly, a tree somewhere between here and home took out the power lines.
I'm heading home in a minute to get ready for tonight's karate practice (in Nago, which didn't lost much power either, or at least not for very long). I'm intrigued to see if they got the power back up at home. If not, then I'm going to have to accept a fridge of spoiled foods - mainly milk and maybe a few meat items in the freezer. I just hope they haven't started stinking.
And to give you an idea of where I was in all of this, the passing storm yesterday, here's a picture for you (pulled from Dave's site). See that little orange spot in the big red spot? That's about to touch down in my neighborhood.
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