Power is back on in my area. A relatively painless darkness compared to a few outages I've faced due to hurricanes Gloria, Hugo and Alicia, and one Michigan ice storm. I was pretty resigned to the possibility that it would be 3 days before I would have power back. Surprises make life interesting. I've learned a few things each time.

Alicia taught me that no matter how hot it was in Houston the waterbed gets too cold to sleep in after day two.

Gloria taught me not to live in a house on a flood plain, oak trees in Connecticut are huge and neighbors with Coleman Stoves are cool.

Hugo greeted me a week after I first moved to South Carolina. I'm still undecided whether Hugo's greeting was preferable to the requisite greeting from native SC women who invariably asked "What does your husband do?" and" What church do you go to?" At least Hugo wasn't boring and predictible, and didn't place my identity on something completely external and unimportant, he was just terribly messy.

Michigan ice storms taught me that imposing myself armed with sleeping bag onto friends with heat is worth any guilt of feeling like an intruder.

This outage reminded me to check the expiration dates on batteries so I can listen to annoying AM talk radio and hear Dim Bulb GW Bush BS.
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