Ok, Now it is really cold.

So yesterday must have been some kind of heat wave or something. Today is has dropped to -15 degrees with a wind chill of -38 below. I did not feel very well this morning so I stayed in bed and skipped the morning meeting maybe my body somehow knew of the impending cold and was refusing to be subjected to it. After sleeping in a couple hours I felt fine so I went out to the substation to finally start working on what I was sent up here to do I had not been there more than a few minute and the temporary construction generator shut down leaving us in the dark. The emergency lights stayed on for about ten minutes then they too shut down seems there was also a power outage in the night and the emergency light batteries had already been depleted. I guess the generator does not like the cold as much as the rest of us. It is kind of a sobering thought that everything up here relies on power from a diesel generator and if it stops working we are pretty much abandoned to the cold.
We are back to cloudy conditions so the sky gets bright but you never see the sun itself. It is now getting dark around 3:30.
Well I was wondering how I was going to get away with sneaking away to watch some Alabama football so the lack of power in the substation must be a blessing. I can now use the excuse there is no power. Now I must slip in early to gain control of the remote. Roll Tide Roll