Out went the lights!


Storms came through last night. Our power went out with the second crack of thunder and haven't been one since. We're up to 15 hours & counting. What's the longest you've been without power? And what did you find was the worst thing to deal with?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I was only a kid, but we lost power for a week. Icestorm knocked out power for 300,000 people and ours was between the pole and the house so low priority. I don't remember much of what we did to deal with it, just candles and fires in the fireplace.

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almost nothing better

First off, I thought this was going to be a thread dedicated to the classic song, "Boom, boom, boom let's go back to my room so we can foo foo all night". (The foo foo version is courtesy of a wonderful Greek cook I worked with)

Newfoundland is home of the snowstorm so we've been without power for a couple of days at a time. The worst thing? My father would be forever trying to trick us into doing something that required power. "Stephanie, put on the Johnny Cash record for me" -- stupid things like that!

27 hours during that summer blackout.........heat and humidity was the killer. I kept running my car to get some air conditioning. I went through a full tank of gas.

Back in South Dakota a couple of summers ago we had a storm that left my side of town without power for I think it was 6-9 hours. it was at nite so kiddo was sleeping next to me on the couch while I sat up reading by candle light.

When the power goes out here, it usually doesn't take too long for it to come back up. A day or two at the very most. When I was growing up, my father worked for the power company, so every time there was thunder, he wouldn't bother going to bed, knowing he'd be called out to work. I can tell ya that somewhere in the top of an electricity pole would not be my ideal place to be during a thunderstorm!

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Last night, after the kids went to bed we played Scrabble by candlelight. Around 10:30 or so, our asses hurt too much from sitting at the kitchen table so we considered our options.

1. Talk
2. Fuck


We went upstairs.

__________________
Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.