Electricity--lack of; Ice--presence of

[mamculuna]

No:

heat
light
computer
DVD
CD player
cordless phone
oven
microwave
TV
clock
toaster
refrigerator
hairdryer




Here I am at work just to get access to a good bit of the above for a few minutes. This is particularly hard b/c I'm teaching an online class and started out with a big rant about how students would just have to find some access to a computer if theirs wasn't functioning--only to be caught in that myself. Grrr.

Went to bed last night with all my clothes on, extra blankets and cats--but woke at some unknown hour and lay there for hours listening to branches splinter and crash, wondering when one would come through the roof, or at a minimum drag the power lines off the house.

Also, it looks like some weird war has just ended--trees down everywhere, power lines trailing in the street, no street lights or traffic lights, sirens wailing full-time.

The last time this happened--Hurricane Hugo (thank god it's been so long)--we didn't get power for 4 or 5 days. But that was September.

This tiny incovenience makes me realize how spoiled rotten I am, and how much harder life is where this is permanent or happens regularly or lasts a long time. I imagine a woman like me in Baghdad, trying to read by candlelight, her fingers numb. Hope things get better for everyone everywhere, and soon.

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This has happened to me a few times

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It was worse of all, of course, when I lived in the Midwest and it was winter. I found blankets for the kitties, then went out to my car and listened to the radio with the engine running and the heat going, waiting to hear any news about when the power would be restored.

Luckily, back then I had a girlfriend who had a four-wheel drive to come rescue me through the snow. She also had underground power cables running to her house, and she invited me over and we sat in the hottub in her enclosed porch and watched the blizzard outside while we drank Merlot.