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ealgyldenHuzzah! 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.
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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Date: 2003-08-16 02:00 am (UTC)Then again, from watching most news broadcasts, you'd think that NYC was the only city on the whole East coast; or at least, the only one that mattered.
Well, naturally. They're the only place that matters, after all. But the rest of the state isn't at all bitter. Oh no. (grrrr)
As mean as it is, I know a lot of people (including myself) who were so happy that we got power back before the city. For once! Nyah! They get all our money and all our attention and even our name, but we got electricity back first. Really petty, but satisfying.