There was a fire over the Loup on the Omak side yesterday, and they “de-energized” the transmission line to the Methow Valley at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. Here’s a link to the brief report on the Methow Grist this morning.
The original estimates were that power would be out for 12-24 hours, depending on how quickly they could control the fire and how much damage was done to pole structures on the transmission line. We got out the LED battery lanterns from our camping equipment, filled water containers (for drinking and flushing toilets) and got the Honda generator going. We hadn’t run it in years and it had old gas in it, but fortunately, after some freshening-up, it started and ran fine. This let us power the refrigerator, a few lamps, and even the TV and DVD player, so we could watch some Netflix after it got dark. We may need to come up with a way to power the pump and pressure tank for our well in future, in case of an extended outage.
Anyway, we went to bed about 11 pm and left a bedside light turned on. About 11:30 pm power came back on!
Twisp of Fate 
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