HURRICANE IRENE STOLE OUR ELECTRICAL POWER FOR A DAY

Even forewarned, it is always a shock to lose electrical power.  With a storm such as that, it is always a possibility.  Suddenly as always, everything squeaked and went off just before noon Sunday, and back on 24 hours later...so here I am.

There has never been a storm in which we were so well warned.  However, without electrical power, that gets lost. However, having been through loss of power before, I was.was physically ready with lots of flashlights and candles.  (Thankfully, no one knows what to give me for Xmas so I get lots of candles!)  What cannot be planned is the urge to climb a wall in frustration not being able to see TV, or use the Internet.  Actually, though people love to call missing the Internet an addiction...it is no more an addiction than the need to eat.  It has become a life necessity...to pay bills, to get mail, to stay current with the world, and to live without reference books.  Not all dependencies are addictions.

That's all folks....for today.

WAITING FOR THE BIG WIND

In my many decades of life, I do not remember ever watching the slow passage of a Hurricane all the way up the East coast.It was lovely to watch it weakening hour by hour, to see that the eye will not be passing over us here, and the likelihood would be that the worse that might happen here will be loss of electrical power.  It surely takes many hours of anxiety away, thanks to the media stations who never quit the reporting.

Goodnight, Irene

Nor, in years past, did people know enough in advance to put out signs, directives on how to prepare  for safety, or even not to bother taping up windows.  Never has a weather event been better covered in my lifetime...far better than any war or political event.


It is comforting to know that if power is lost, I can still flush a toilet and get  water to drink and bathe.  There are some advantages to less rural living.  My educated guess is that the worse that will happen will be a loss of electrical power, in which case I will lose some frozen and fresh food.  Given the loss of life in Virginia, I can, in all reality, 'live' with that.


MSNBC has had this coverage on 24 hours a day for several days now.  How boring this must be for people in the mid-West and West   I know how bored I have been when coverage for days has been a boring repetition about places like mud slides in CA of million dollar homes.  After the first mudslides were reported, it was hard for me to raise empathy for the people who moved there or rebuilt    I'm sure if I knew the whole truth I would find out that people had no choice to do otherwise due to financial constraints or other information I am lacking.


Despite an East  coast earthquake this week and a hurricane up the entire East coast, I still believe this is one of the safest areas in the country from nature's weather or earth events.