I survived the Great Power Outage

[kandrathe]

Where I live we have outages all the time, and I fear we always will. The weather in the central plains of the US is the most volitile and active in the world. The day can start out a balmy 90 degrees F, with blue skies and a light breeze, and 2 hours later a storm will erupt dropping the temperature by 30 degrees, dropping 10 inches of rain, and wiping the wind up towards 50 or 60 mph. So, when you set out in the morning, you just never know what it will be like at lunch time, or then again what it would be like when you go home. So the consequence is that I am thankful to have power, phone lines, and cable TV, when it works, which is most of the time.