Wednesday about 7.15 pm an Apache-chopper flew into two pylons which support
the cabbles for electricity.

Our region entered The Dark Ages from that moment on.

No heating, no streetlights, no lights inside the house, no TV, no pc, no hot coffee,
no supper if you don't have a gas cooker, not hot tub or shower, no wireless phones.

Do you have any idea how fast a house cools down with 3 degrees Celsius outside ??

TOO FAST !!!

We DID have candles, books, boardgames, blankets,
heat from our gas cooker, hot tea, cellphones (if the batterie wasn't flat and wirephones.

Very romantic... wonder how many babies will be born in about nine months.
People in Haaksbergen have been out of electricity for 3 days a couple of years back.
Nine months later there was a babyboom.... What else is there to do, right...

About 3 am the lights went back on. Literal in my bedroom. Wide awake in 2 seconds...
Each time you enter a room autopilot kicks in and you turn on the light. But no lights so you forget
to turn them off when you leave the room....

Yep, that's how you end up wide awake at 3 am

Here are some images from the Internet I found concerning the accident. Just to give you an idea.

The apache-chopper made a forced landing in a meadow about 20 km from the site.
The two pilots were send to the hospital, but turned out okay, so that's the good news.

The pylon on the north-side of the river Waal has still one 'arm' left and will be used in
the restoringprocess. That's a bit of good news too.

It's an other story on the south-side of the river. Both 'arms' are missing.
Which will be temporarily replaced with two cranes who will hold up three of the six
original cables.
With three out of six our region will be restored with electricity. Because of the fact that all
six cables were destroyed the world turned black at once....

This is one of the broken cables. Some of themended up in the water.
Which must have caused some fireworks... Would have loved to see that.

Anyway... Bad news

This crash has put 50.000 homes including 110.000 citizens out of electricity.

Stores are closed. Simply because registers and security won't work.
One advantage... you can't spent any money either, saves you some bucks there.

There are a lot of dairy-farmers in the region who can't milk their cattle.
If they would milk them by hand they can't store the milk because of that same lack
of electricity... So that yummy milk will end up in... right a ditch behind the farm.
Have to leave it somewhere.

If everything goes according to plan... when does that ever happen... ???
Then everyone will reenter the 21th Century by Friday-afternoon.

But... It's really dark outside and really cold (3 degrees as mentioned).
The river Waal is really high, all the way at the dikes. So that doesn't help much.
The genies from the army do lent a hand, so...

Schools are out because there is no heating, no pc, no anything.
In our town one school was working but has to send the students home on Friday so the old
people's home can use the school. That home is from the wrong part of town this week

Who is going to pay for all this...
You, me, everybody... accept the government.
Just like the old days with the musketeers. All for One, One for All.

The department of Defense already stated that they won't accept any claims...
Who flew the damn thing??? Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Lucky Luke, Man in Black

YEP... ALL FOR ONE it is !!!

Long live the guy that invented the electricity, HURRAY, HURRAY, HURRAY.