these things happen... too often

Woke at 3am, not a spec of light other than the stars that shine bright. The power is out. Little cool in the bedroom, not unusual as we keep the temperature upstairs set at 62 degrees year round. Set the alarm on my phone to 4:45 in lieu of the alarm clock not operating. Figured no sense in doing anything about the power until the usual time at which I got up, dressed, donned coat, boots, hat and gloves. Headed out to the garage and rolled the generator out to the deck, took a few tugs on the pull cord to wake it up, wired it up to the house electric system. Heat, fridge, toaster, running water. The wonders of modern tech using the cellphone to find outage resolution times from the power delivery company to be 6am, later it updated to 7am - ended up being 7:15. That's the routine - hope some day to have a standby generator installed, until then it's the old fashion way.