Electricity

The night before last, a nasty storm took out the power to our castle from 6:00 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.  Our Internet was out until about 1:30 yesterday.  In this world, this is a big deal.  Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING runs on electricity -- except my cell phone!  But.  It better be charged since there is no electricity to charge it if it isn't!

TV:  Not a big deal, you say?  But it's our window to the news ----- and weather!  "Course it's satellite.  But if you know anything about those you know at the first hint of bad weather, it goes away.  So, how do you find out what's going on?  All those warnings and watches.   Nope.

Lights:  We have flashlights and candles.  OK.

Alarm system:  Nope.  Doesn't work without electricity!  Are thieves that smart?

Automatic garage door openers:  Nope, again.  And this vertically challenged Queen person cannot reach the manual override.

Laptop:  Well, operates for a while on it's battery.  And it's a good thing not to have it plugged in since it's direct to the -------- electricity.  But then the wireless Internet went out.

You know what else wouldn't work without electricity?  You out there in the west would never guess this one.  The sump pump.  Luckily has a battery backup.  We don't know how long that lasts and don't even begin to want to find out.

Now there is gas to cook food on the stove top.  If you can see in candle light.

Oh, and since this is a 'gated' community, you can get out (if you get your car out of the garage) but you can't get back in.......

So all these electrical wonders; are they a blessing or a curse?\
This Queen has often wondered what would happen if all the New Yorkers parked their electrical cars and plugged them in to charge them at the same time!!!  Talk about a brown out!  What do you suppose that would do to the national grid?

Oh, and have you ever tried to buy anything when the electricity (computers) were non-operational?  Like, groceries?  Gas?  HA and double HA.  No computer no anything!!!!

I'm just saying.

Maybe we should have wood burning fireplaces, lanterns, etc.  And, no all my peeps, I do NOT personally remember.

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HQ