Transformers

No spoiler alert here. We won't be talking about the movie but rather of those things that go boum! in the night.
With all the high winds and storms we've had in the past few days, we had a few close calls. Eventually, yesterday, after a bolt of lightening split the sky in two a mighty roll of thunder and tremendous boum that sounded close, very close, ended with the lights going out. Yesterday was Paul's birthday and we had planned for fondue which is self-sustaining. The cake was done and we have a gas stove so we proceeded as usual, replacing the electrical light with our faithful camping lamp (kids, don't do this at home!). We had a great meal and all but after 4 hours in the darkness (a record since we moved to Kemptville), we inquired what was the situation with our neighbours. Lo and behold, they all had electricity. We called Hydro and they sent some guys. It appears our neighbour's transformer blew up so they would try and restart ours (it worked). I guess that as a protective measure, ours shut down when the surge hit it. It appears we have our own personal transformer which made us feel quite special. Now for us to make it feel special, we need to clean up the trees around it to make it accessible to the maintenance crew. The area around it is overgrown and the personnel who was dispatched last night made us promise to get the trees trimmed (the line from the road to our post has to be cleared).
Friday nights are always exciting in my household.