After the inital "Oh NO!" reaction from losing power, I sort of like that hush of the house, the neighborhood. It's funny how "loud" your house noise is--even when nobody is home. But add up all those appliances and gadgets whirring in sync and it's amazing how much background noise we live with daily.
When the kids were little, they would freak out if we lost electricity--which I always found hilarious. I mean, here I was, creeped out by dinosaurs, those darn Wizard of Oz monkeys, and the kid catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and they were freaked by no power. I'm still wondering why that terrified them. I mean, we went camping, in a tent, with no power, for a week each year--why would no power suddenly scare them? They're goofs. Whatever.
So, there were sat last night, watching the light show and wondering what lights and TVs were left on when the house shut down. I did a bit of shadow theater where "the dog" was trying to eat Joe's head--which I found hilarious, but he did not. Em sat on the couch trying to determine whether the spider she found was on the inside or the outside of the window. Joe was messin' with the travel alarm clock so he could get up on time this morning, and Colin just wished we'd all go away.
We finally all gave up and just went to bed. I have no idea what time it finally went back on, but I did wake up in the middle of the night to find Hobbes in the family room with the TV and all the lights on, catching up on the latest sports scores.
Back to normal. And the house is whirring again.
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For years, I used a digital wrist watch alarm to wake me up for work. Shortly after moving here, I installed a generator in the barn. When the power goes out, the generator starts 20 seconds later. Once up to speed, the power feed to the house automatically switches to the generator. It is very nice!
I seem to be in a nice little North Shore pocket that hasn't lost power. :-)
I do enjoy the forced solitude and peace that no electricity brings--except when I need to do my hair, then I need that power for my various hair-care doo-dads.
Power out in the summer, pretty standard - happened all the time when we lived in Alexandria - I mean ALL the time. A few hours only and in the early evening so we would sit around on the front stoop and complain with the neighbors...pleasant enough. I always felt sorry for the people who had PEPCO - worst electric company in the world.
No power this time of year means no AC! Here in Texas...that Terrifies me!
the monkeys and the kid catcher terrified me as a child! to this day they kind of give me the willies also. hehehe! i also love the quietness. i have had enough noise in my lifetime, bartending for 22 years, that quiet is my friend. you have a wonderful day my friend.
We've been getting a lot of power outages lately because we have had some major lightening storms. I quite enjoy it :)
Run out of ideas for entertaining one's self, it's off to bed!
Did Hobbes tell you the ball scores?
We lose power a fair amount and I can't stand it. Not only do we lose lights, television, computers, Internet, etc., the biggest problem is we lose water. It stinks when you can't flush the toilet or wash your hands.
I don't mind the power going out when I'm supposed to be working! As for it going out at night, that's just the perfect excuse to be late to work the next morning so no travel alarm clocks for me!
I have freaked at the loss of power once-- when it fried during the opening ceremonies of the Atlanta Olympics. (you know pre-dvr days)
We lost power last Saturay from midnight to 630am. Best time to lose the power is when you are already in slumber land. Plus, unlike Joe, there was no need for the alarm clock.
Here's to power to jump start the holiday weekend!
A little power outage every now and then is kind of nice. It's amazing how many things you try to do though before you realize you can't without electricity
So Hobbes was in the know....
I hate when the power goes out. So much free time, and nothing to do.
Chuck--The mean old man across the street fired up his generator--but we had power in 2 hours, so he wasted gas. I can see if your food is spoiling or you need heat--but this guy just does it "because". I think it gives him something to do and gripe about.
Helene--It was weird because the weather wasn't bad here. It just went out. Oh well, no harm.
Betty--Oh, I forgot about the hair. Ugh. I HAVE to have electricity for that even when I go camping. I suffer only so far.
Grace--Our electricity used to go out more often, but not so much anymore. We did lose it once for 3 days and it was beyond awful. Killed two of my fish in the tank--no oxygen and our food went bad. I actually went to the laudromat because I missed lights and my washing machine.
Melodie--EEK! That would be awful. It was nice here, so we slept really nice until it went back on in the middle of the night!
PJ--I like it quiet too, pally. Even when no one is home, I turn off the stereo and the tv. I like quiet. Good to hear from you again, pally!
Mary Ann--I don't like the storms, but I don't mind the power outage. We are campers, so we are pretty prepared.
Vanilla--You can only do so many shadow puppet shows before that gets old. Sigh. Hobbes was scared, believe it or not! He didn't like the flashlights in the house. He's weird.
Anne--Oh, that would not be good. I can live without the other stuff--but only for so long. Water? No way. How do you survive??
Beaded Tail--I like when it goes out at work and we can't do anything but laugh about it. Home is a different story because you worry about all that food in the fridge.
Jodi--It's funny because we just finished watching something good on tv when the power went out. We were relieved that we got to finish what we were watching. It's funny how dependent we are on that tube. Ugh.
Ann--We tent camp so we are sort of used to making due without power. BUT when you are trying to live in your own house--it is a whole 'nother story.
Pricilla--I swear he was having a party in there! :)
Ratty--It's funny how you can only do so much and then the rest just becomes too much effort and you go to bed. That's sort of where we were that night. It was a good excuse to go to bed early for once.
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