Yesterday morning, I received a knock on my door and two guys were on my porch. They were here from K&B Energy Solutions:
to install a new generator!
With lots of scrimping and saving, I was able to get one! One that works! For me, it is a medical necessity! I’ve had three power outages in the past three years and the last outage lasted six days with four different hotels stays which NONE were properly handicapped accessible! Well, it looks like I won’t need to worry about that anymore! At least, in the next few days, I won’t have to worry about it anymore!
The guys who came in were named Nick and Scott and then a third young man came and he was also named Nick. I told Scott that it was, “A Scott sandwich with Nick bread” and he laughed and agreed!
I thought it was cool that he laughed and it reminded me of telling Mike Rhoades that it was a, “Jen sandwich with Mike bread” when he and an intern named Mike helped me stand at Barwis. That was before I called Michael Rhoades, “Michael” instead of “Mike.”
As they were in my basement, installing, my Mom and I left my house to get some lunch. We, “Walked” to subway a couple blocks away because they needed to cut my power off to install it. I learned a couple things on my, “Maiden Voyage!” The first thing is that it is NOT comfortable! It WAS possible for my motorized chair to make it to Subway but it was impossible to , “Walk” next to my Mom in the process. I sped to the end of the block and waited there for my Mom to walk there. There was a breeze so I wore my winter coat and a zippy. It was cold! What can I say?! I can’t control my body temperature anymore!
While we sat in Subway to eat our food, I had Sun Chips. I think the last time I ate them, I was in high school. Country music played in the background and it reminded me of high school because I could barely hear the words.
They were finishing up as we got home and they ran a test of the generator so I could see what would happen when my power went out. The power would go out for 30 seconds before it came back on and it sounded like a lawnmower was running in my backyard. I told Scott that I was surprised it was so loud but he told me that it, “Sounds like heaven when the power goes out!”
Two different inspectors came to my house from the city this morning to inspect it. It passed the mechanical inspection but failed the electrical inspection. Scott told me they were pretty picky. The younger Nick came to change something on the generator and he knew what they were talking about to make me NOT pass. Once that is all figured out, he will inspect my generator again in six months and then a year from yesterday.
It’s kind of crazy that I will NOT be affected by the power outages in my neighborhood any longer. It’s actually really cool!