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After several weeks of suffering, Grandpa moved on to a better place last night. Thanks to everyone out there for your thoughts and prayers, condolences are still coming in on Twitter.

Anyways, thought I’d share a little story with you, as Grandpa got us to a laugh a little after he moved on.

Before Thanksgiving, my brothers and dad and I went over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house to shovel the driveway off after some snow came through. With the four of us, it didn’t take long to do it, and dad spent most of that time talking to Grandma. We went to the basement for awhile and talked with Grandpa when we were done.

Grandpa didn’t have the best Insanity Workout review grasp on what was going on these last few months, but he still kept up with the news. Up here in ND, we export a lot of electricity, and had an oil boom of sorts the last couple years. That particular day, the papers had ran a story about the work being done on wind towers. This prompted Grandpa to say, “First they take our oil, now they want all our wind!” Yeah, we got a kick out of that.

So last night, we’re there in the nursing home with him, and eventually, he takes his last few breaths. Tough guy that he was, the nurse couldn’t find a heartbeat, and he took a few more breaths anyways.

Well, everybody was just there for a bit, comforting Grandma, and then we moved into action mode, calling the grandkids, and Grandpa’s siblings, and people around town, when suddenly, the power went out. Yep, the power died. In the whole town. The place was black, and even the backup generator seemed to be struggling to hold on, once it kicked in.

So Grandpa had his final moment. He moved on, and he took the power with him.