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My house still has no electricity.
I haven't opened the fridge. Everything in there is certainly no good now. Sometime when I have natural light to work with, I'll empty the whole thing. My neighbors on the left have already given up and emptied theirs. They had to; they'd been opening it. They can't afford to eat out for a week like I can. No one in that house has a job.
The pool didn't overflow... at least not into the living room.
The house gets quite cold at night. If there's no power by tonight, I'm breaking out the camping gear. Y'know, I gotta wonder whether there's a local law against insulation. I've lived five different places since moving to the Bay Area and none of them were insulated worth a damn. No wonder we are such power hogs. (I have windows that don't close. I'm not kidding; they don't close. Where I grew up, anyone who created such a design would be taken out and shot.)
This is a personal record for me; this is the longest I've ever been without electricity. In the blizzard of 1978 a good chunk of New England declared a state of emergency that lasted well over a week: no civilian use of roads, people were trapped in office buildings and surviving from the vending machines, etc etc... and the power didn't stay out this long. A few years ago I was in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, when a hurricane came through and wiped out anything that wasn't nailed down. Homes were destroyed, roads had to be excavated from under several feet of sand... and the power didn't stay out this long. God help Sunnyvale if it ever gets any real weather.
I haven't opened the fridge. Everything in there is certainly no good now. Sometime when I have natural light to work with, I'll empty the whole thing. My neighbors on the left have already given up and emptied theirs. They had to; they'd been opening it. They can't afford to eat out for a week like I can. No one in that house has a job.
The pool didn't overflow... at least not into the living room.
The house gets quite cold at night. If there's no power by tonight, I'm breaking out the camping gear. Y'know, I gotta wonder whether there's a local law against insulation. I've lived five different places since moving to the Bay Area and none of them were insulated worth a damn. No wonder we are such power hogs. (I have windows that don't close. I'm not kidding; they don't close. Where I grew up, anyone who created such a design would be taken out and shot.)
This is a personal record for me; this is the longest I've ever been without electricity. In the blizzard of 1978 a good chunk of New England declared a state of emergency that lasted well over a week: no civilian use of roads, people were trapped in office buildings and surviving from the vending machines, etc etc... and the power didn't stay out this long. A few years ago I was in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, when a hurricane came through and wiped out anything that wasn't nailed down. Homes were destroyed, roads had to be excavated from under several feet of sand... and the power didn't stay out this long. God help Sunnyvale if it ever gets any real weather.
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Would take a bigger storm than we had to break the "out of power" record for me. It was 6 days (heck we lived in the "woods") during that storm. Got bad enough that a couple of the neighbors hiked into town on show shoes to get milk, etc.
I remember hiking for groceries. Family of five, each person with one bag to carry back, trundling through deep fluffy snow. My mother was adroit enough to open a package of Rolo candies (chocolate covered caramel) while carrying her bag, and when I ate the candy she gave me, I lost a baby tooth in it. I had to wait until I got home to put down my grocery bag and take the tooth out of my mouth. :-)