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I hope that everyone had something special to do on Valentine's Day so that my absence wasn't missed as much! I meant to get online and cancel the show before the power went down because I knew they were doing maintenance on the generators here on the island.

We have no idea when we'll be back on normal power. What we understand is that the power surge that happened on the weekend of January 31st damaged the underwater cable to the point of melting some of the insulation. When they tried to bring the cable up this past week is actually broke into 2 pieces.

What they're looking into now is splicing that cable back together to get us temporary power and then laying a new cable which will cost $3.5 MILLION dollars plus another $1.5 Millon to lay that cable. So $5 Million which we as shareholders ofte co-op power company have to somehow pay for in this weird economy.

And still I won't move from here because I'm ok with this situation. We've cut back even more on our power usage, as much as possible. Were cooking as many meals as possible on the woodstove. Once it gets too warm for a fire I expect to use the grill a lot.

I hope eveyone of you is still prepping and stocking up and educating yourselves online.

Also, because of this situation the NorthStar Preparedness Network site is currently down but I hope to see that fixed later this week. I'll keep you posted.

Suzanne
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