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Wednesday afternoon, I rushed out to town to pay my electricity bill. As usual, I had left the payment late and they were talking of cutting off supply. No patience these people.

Anyway, I was in a bit of a hurry as I had to get back home in time to change and get ready for my gig at the Crimson Moon that night. Having paid the bill, thereby (I thought) ensuring ongoing electricity supply, I headed home.

Suddenly, quite a bad storm hit town. It was quite impressive from where I was, but didn't realise the full extent of it. When I finally made it to my house, I realised that I couldn't get there as a tree had come down and was blocking my street. "Aha, lucky" I thought as I realised that I already had all my music gear loaded into the back of the car. I was hardly dressed for the stage (having only tee shirt and jeans), but I figured I'd get away with it given the circumstances.

When I turned up at the restaurant, it was all in darkness. Apparently, trees had come down all over Dahlonega and one was down right in front of the restaurant (picture).

After standing around for a while it was decided that there was going to be no gig that night, so I headed home.

It took me three attempts to actually get back to the house as all traffic lights were inoperative, and the first two roads I took were blocked by fallen trees.

Having finally got home, having experienced such an adventure in getting my electricity bill paid, guess what? Yep, I had no electricity.

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