AT 7am Friday morning, we had a phone call from the alarm company that monitors our TE warehouse. The alarms were going off - were we aware? Um, no. And the person who would normally be here at that hour was scheduled to be in later. We called her and sure enough, she wasn't at the office.

Soooo, we spent a very tense 45 minutes trying to get to the office. Traffic lights were out at major intersections so the roads were a mess. We got to the office and everything was fine. We discovered the alarms had been triggered by the power outtage (well, actually, by the power being restored). We lost power at the office at around 7 pm Thursday and it didn't come back until 7am Friday. Being without power stinks, but from a business standpoint we were very lucky! It didn't affect our ability to ship orders at all. (Big sigh of relief at this time of year!)

We were lucky AGAIN last night. A major power substation had a transformer blow within a few miles of the office. Once again, 50,000 people without power. But we were OK here. Our power flickered at home when the transformer blew, but we didn't lose power there either. Whew!

Hope everyone is safe and warm today!!

Susan