Thursday, June 24, 2010

Storms and Power Outages

So my area of Illinois has been getting hit pretty hard lately by storms. Not all of them have been destructive but it's still kind of annoying. The weather will be up and down all day. The other day I woke up and the sun was shining and then lunch it was raining then shining again and I got out for a run and get caught in this storm from no where. What the hell mother nature!? Make up your mind!

Well Tuesday was definitely one of those days. I had planned on going for a run but saw this huge black cloud approaching so decided I'd just take it easy inside. Glad thing I made that choice because not ten or fifteen minutes later the sky just unleashed everything it had. The thunder was so strong it was setting off car alarms and all that around the place I'm staying.

Well the real reason I'm writing this right now is because we ended up losing power for a while and then the internet wasn't back up until this afternoon. Now I've always grown up with electricity, I mean what person my age hasn't, I mean hell even my parents did. Losing power for my generation I feel is like losing everything that we know. I mean no TV, no computer, and hell since it was night I couldn't even read since I don't have candles. I just can't imagine not having this all the time. Even something as simple as a refrigerator to keep my food cool is useless without electricity.

My point here is that thinking about it the past day or so I just can't believe how dependent we are on it. I mean at this point not like we can ween ourselves off of it, but ya know still just hard to think how I feel most of us (including myself) would find it hard to function without it.

I've been reading some post apocalyptic books lately and really don't know how well I'd fair without power. It's not like I have many skills of survival since I'm so dependent on it. Do you think you could survive without power? Let me know.

1 comment:

  1. i almost got blown away at work today trying to put up a volleyball net because this storm cameo ut of nowhere. everyone was laughing at me.

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