24-Hour Blackout

4th July 2008

Yesterday, at about 3 pm, the sky looked like it was 9 pm. Yep! It was a thunderstorm. I guess it was bound to happen, because we’ve had a couple of hot days in a row. I thought nothing of it, except that my car was parked on the street by a 2-hour parking meter, but I couldn’t be bothered to put more quarters because I didn’t want to get wet, at the same time I didn’t want to be ticketed.

No tickets, YAY! I guess the police also didn’t want to get wet :p Whatever. I arrived home slightly wet, no worries. I walked into my apartment building .. and it was DARK!!! At this point, I was annoyed because I had prepared beef stew in the CrockPot since that morning & was hoping to come home to a prepared dinner!

Never mind. This blackout wasn’t going to last, I thought. 5 hours later, I thought wrong. I was worried about the chins getting too hot & my food in the fridge going bad. So, I decided to buy 2 bags of ice & store them in the fridge. I was going to sleep through the hot night & I’d wake up to a power-restored morning.

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I woke up alright .. BUT IT WAS SO HOT BECAUSE THE POWER DIDN’T COME BACK ON!

Eeeerrgghh!!!

I never realized how much we took electricity for granted! I had no access to the Internet, my laptop & my phone ran out of battery, I couldn’t cook, no TV, no AC, no fan. I wonder what people did back in the day to kill time when there was no electricity .. I couldn’t even read with the help of a couple of dim candles, because it was too dark! I guess people just had to sleep earlier. Well, I slept at 3 am, so I had to stay up longer feeling bored with nothing to do.

After a trip to the movie & the mall, I finally came home to power-restored apartment. The chins & I finally could enjoy the cool air blowing from the AC.

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