history: My power went out three times today.  Good thing I had batteries. My power went out over three or four times today.  I lost count. Oh wow. Is it raining or something over there?
current: No they are doing work in the neighborhood.  Im glad I had my old hurricane supplies, batteries, etc.  I couldn't see anything.
next: How long is the work gonna take? I hope you don't get any weird power outages.