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People today live with a microwave mentality.
They expect government relief agencies to respond instantly and fix their problems now.
I think fast food places like McDonalds has warped peoples perspective about how long things like restoring electric power really takes to repair in disaster situations. ....
Lotta peeps get soooooo dependent on electricity. Then fall to pieces.
Me, I like a good power outage. Lets you know what your world would be like without this rampant 24/7 fake daylight. Makes you get creative.
It DEPENDS.....when Sandy came through we had huge early snowfall and low temperatures that brought down trees and powerlines all over the state. Because we had well water - without power we had no water or heat other than the wood stove insert. It was interesting - we essentially lived in one room for heat and light and we did get creative. But it lasted a week. And it was cold. Somehow the water situation was what really dragged me down. It was hard to be creative.
We had a week like that when I was seven years old. A blizzard knocked out everybody's power and the heater wouldn't go on. I remember a brown boxy-looking kerosene heater we huddled around in one room where the only heat was (it was March). I don't remember what we ate. It was so cool.
When I was younger...I was much more adventerous
We lived for a while in an aframe with undependable water, wood heat, ladybugs and wasps...and...it was fun. But after a while things didn't get better, only harder.
Now...I like my comfort
I like comfort too but when the whole paradigm shifts everything that was mundane routine is gone and it's a whole new scene. It wakes you up. It's a new world. I like that. I guess because it gets rid of the same-old.
And furthermore, ladybugs are our friends. They eat aphids.
I liked the ladybugs and even the wasps...they were kind of a metaphor for us. The house was unfinished and we semi finished it. They wintered over in behind the drywall. But when the wood stove heated the house enough, they'd wake up and buzz around...and drunk, half awake wasps would fall from the ceiling
I've gotten to the point, because we've had so many water problems...that that is one area where I no longer cope well - I can take no heat, no electric...but damn...no water sucks.