Seattle snowpocolypse meant we lost power at home for about 18 hours or so. The talking one didn’t even register this and I had to wax poetic on the different kinds of energy there was and how we had lost the currency of the medium, i.e. electricity aka alternating current. Didn’t stop the demands for watching TV all day long though. Kvetcher.
Had to traipse into work in order to get the slightest thing done. No electricity, thus no internet, no computers and rapidly dwindling cell phone batteries. I felt like I was devolving to the early Paleocene epoch and I didn’t like it one jot. This kind of thing gives the lie to hosting your own internet stuff btw – my email server was shut down and of course this blog (not that you care, the wide public does not read us, my precious). Not to mention that the roads were pretty treacherous. Lucky me the beemer is 4×4, else car and I would have come a purler, in a particularly deep snow drift strategically close to my workplace.
The stores were stripped of essentials like batteries and torches – home depot was a veritable wasteland. Safeway, no better. As an aside you have to doff your hat to the dedication of the American worker. Most retail employees made it into work to serve the non-existent public cowering in their homes from 1 foot of snow. In these situations you really get the distinct feeling that it’s every man for himself; a short skip and jump to raiding shops and a free for all in the streets.
All in all, these things happen infrequently, but it makes you wonder what a real life disaster would look like.
