Monday morning, July 28 in Devils Lake dawned slightly overcast due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, as I looked out my kitchen window to the north I noticed the big black wire that carries cable TV into my house was laying on the ground.

“What the heck?” I thought. So I turned on the little TV set sitting on my kitchen counter to see if my reception was affected by this turn of events.

“Nope” everything seemed to be okay with my cable, it just was no longer attached to my house like it normally was. So I called the 1-800 number for my provider and gave them the information that it would need to be reattached – we couldn’t leave it laying on the ground – my first thought was something right out of the Game of Thrones, “Winter is Coming!” [eventually, but hopefully not too soon!]

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