Late last night the rain started, it was pretty hard at times and was accompanied by thunder and lightning. For the most part the thunder just rolled around and the lightning was the behind the clouds type, there was one flash / bang that was loud, bright and close. After a few hours all calmed down and the rain stopped.
Fast forward to this morning, all looks good outside, have breakfast and check the Internet… NO Internet. Nothing unusual there, it goes on and off throughout the day.
An hour later, still no Internet….. this is getting serious :-). Lyn went off to do some shopping, and I did some stuff around the trailer. Still no Internet.
This afternoon we decided to visit Lyn’s birthplace, Inverness. It’s a town about 10 miles away. We took the scenic route in, through the back roads which wound their way through Golf Club estates. I say back roads, but in reality they were four lane divided highways (dual carriage ways for those across the pond). It is amazing how may of the roads are 4 lane, they wouldn’t even be busy if they were two lane, guess they have a good road building budget down here.
We got into Inverness, which is a typical town, big name stores on the outskirts, and the remains of a downtown area. We stopped in the centre of the town where there was an old courthouse, originally built in the late 19th century, the court house was surrounded by lawyers offices; Florida seems to be overcrowded with lawyers, there are offices everywhere, they advertise on the radio (and probably the TV) the billboards along the side of the road are full of lawyer adverts… it’s crazy.
We meandered back to the campsite and happened upon a quilt store, literally in the middle of nowhere, naturally we stopped. Lyn returned triumphant from the store with the usual comment as she waved a bunch of fabric at me “It was so cheap I had to buy some”
Back at the campsite we dropped into the office to pick up mail and ask whether the internet had been revived. Turns out the close flash / bang last night took out some of the internet hardware :-(, they were busy trying to restore it but weren’t willing to say when it may be back.
It came back about 8PM so someone must have been working overtime to prevent a riot. Seems everyone around here gets cranky when the internet goes down.