POTS out

We've been seeing power brown-outs from time to time over the past couple of weeks (dimming lights, slowing fans), although the local daily has reported nothing of this. It was worst before last week's storm and also on the evening of the Glorious Fourth, probably from people arriving home and hitting the a.c. But tonight's telephone outage was the first we've had in years, except for very brief no-dialtone periods when people have been tinkering with the lines out on the easement.