Power Outage Date

Muz and D had Ben over for dinner and a sleepover the night before they left, and Gail and I took advantage of the opportunity to have a quiet date-night "in"...this was during the Rubgy Tournament Weekend in the Tri-Lakes, so a dinner out was not going to be ideal...rugby and romance goes together like Spam and Champagne...

The only downside was that as soon as we got home with a couple of rental movies and some dinner fixings, the power went out...bummer!


We shifted gears, thanks in large part to Zombie Squad (a disaster readiness and charity organization...their motto is, "if you're ready for a zombie outbreak, then you're ready for anything!"), and continued with our date-night despite the loss of power...we surmounted the first hurdle by cooking on the grill outside, and keeping the champagne chilled in a neoprene scuba-suit...




The movies that we had rented provided a more serious challenge, but one that we were up to...I bought a power inverter from Amazon (link) that plugs into the lighter socket in my Element to create usable power in the house through the use of an extension cord coming in through the window...

Through some awesome coincidence, one of the movies that we had selected was "Cloverfield", a movie about a spectacular disaster that takes place in NYC...


My Honda Element was pulled up to right under the window, the inverter produced ample power for the movies (we ended up watching 2 using the power from the inverter/Element combo), it used almost no gas in 4 hours at idle, was quiet, didn't overheat, didn't require lugging around, and provided its own shelter from the rain that fell during the movies...AWESOME!


The little inverter is a clever invention that certainly proved its worth that night...we joked about not even knowing if the world had ended, as long as we had this thing, and even planned on using it to grind and brew coffee in the morning (but the power went back on at about 11pm)...