The electricity was out for seven hours yesterday here. Today, I reset all my clocks and timers (I have a lot of things with timers on them) and then I threw out much of what was in my refrigerator, went to the market and restocked. I finished this around 2:00 in the afternoon and an hour later, the power went out here again…and stayed out until just before 9:30. Could it be more fun?
But you know what I kept thinking about through it all, while I was sitting and reading books by flashlight? I kept thinking this was a microscopic fraction of what some folks in Florida have been through lately…and may be about to experience again. It also dawned on me that compared to what happened to some other people not that long ago on this day, two long power outages is like luxury.