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[ealgylden]

Huzzah! I have power again! And it took much less time than I was expecting to get it back, which is always good.

It's not the lack of electricity that bothers me in situations like this. That's annoying, but survivable. It's not even the fact that it was in the high eighties today and I had no working fans. It's the lack of running water that was most problematic. Well water might taste better than municipal water, but that hardly matters when it's still stuck in the well and the pump is electric.

Running water and working plumbing. Among the greatest blessings of civilization. Don't take them for granted.

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[(Anonymous)]

Looks like we both lived through this! The funniest part was listening to the people on the hand-crank generator radio acting as if something REALLY terrible had happened to us, like we were 'struggling to survive' the effect of some nuclear bomb or something. It was a blackout. It lasted under 12 hours. Get the flock over it, people. If you can't coast over half a day sans power, I pity you.

When exactly did yours come back on? Where are you located, miss? It's 3AM here and we just turned on. At least I THINK it was now... I was asleep with my cthulu.

ANR Collin

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're okay! I'm up in dairy country on the Canadian border (NY side), south of Ottawa. You're way down state, right? We've been heartily mocking the city up here (unfairly, but that never stops anyone) for being full of wussies who could never ever survive one day without all them thar citified comforts. We do the same thing in the winter when four inches of snow closes everything down- wussies! *g*

We lucked out, actually, and were only without power for a few hours (4ish-11:30ish). Not every town up here was as lucky, of course, but still, I can't complain when I think of the poor folks in Cleveland who are still stuck. Bad enough they live in Cleveland.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, I mock the cityfolk too. Especially those pansyass bastards from Long Island, most of whom probably drowned in their own tears because there was nothing to make their diamond-laden hands glitter as they should. :)

I'm an hour northish in a very rural area. And Long Island people STILL suck. I know one who mocks rural areas because 'the food isn't as good at restaurants as in LI, because on LI people have more money and... um.... that makes it better'. I want to punch his teeth through the back of his pimply little head.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, because LI is such a paradise. Sheesh. I have nothing against cities in general. Some of them I love (not New York, I admit, but some cities), and I like the fact that I have several major ones within reasonable driving distance (sushi! yay!). But that "there's nothing worthwhile outside The City and our lives are so much better while simultaneously so much more stressful and worthy of sympathy and attention" attitude that's sometimes seen drives me up the wall. Oh shuddup, city people, that's not true.

"Diamond-laden hands"? Snerk.