7/5 July 4 concert at Boscobel. All weather models indicated that it would rain close to the end of the concert, and it did start raining right in the middle, exactly after the last note of Rhapsody in Blue had been played. The rest of the concert was cancelled and we made our way back to the Jeep in pouring rain with pretty good emergency logistics securing the violin.

As we got home we found the power out, and it stayed out all night and still is out as I write this at noon on the 5th. There is also no update on when it will be back, but that is not out of arrogance or negligence of the power company; there is actually far more damage in surrounding areas which they are busy with.

The outage is only about ten blocks around our place, the rest of Newburgh is functioning as normal. I got a bag of ice from the supermarket so we can cool J’s medications in the styrofoam box in which they arrived. Although this is the first significant outage in all my time in this country, I am considering upping our game and buy better batteries, maybe an emergency fridge that runs on them. We already have some great generators which are the Jeeps.

12.46pm power is back.