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Darkness Bad, Normalcy Good
Published: 12/11/2007 8:24 PM
Last Modified: 12/11/2007 8:24 PM

The sound of electricity returning sounds a lot like a high school wrestling match.
For two days, there was no electricity at my home. I'm not complaining. There are plenty of folks still without power.
When I walked into the house for the first time since juice was restored, I heard a voice. Looter? No way. I've got an alarm system (glad to pay that bill) to keep the weasels away.
The voice came from a television in the bedroom. Some fellow was doing commentary for a wrestling match on cable channel 3. I was glad to hear his voice because it was the sound of normalcy returning.
Life goes on, although the past couple of days were an interesting lab experiment. It seemed like people had to be halfway engaged in a fistfight just to be fifth in line at a gas station.
Or, to find food, you had to get in a drive-thru line that circles the block around a fast food joint (or go inside and wait 20 minutes to get to the front of the line, which I did, and the workers should be complimented for showing up rather than chided for a logjam that was out of their control).
Have we been inconvenienced? Sure. But it just shows how much we took everything for granted before the city took an icy plunge into darkness.
I hope your power is reinstated soon. Until then, try to be good.






Reader Comments 2 Total
TAB (5 years ago)
I'm tryin' to be good, but the whole affair is frustrating. Hard to be "good" when you see people running dead stoplights, your neighbor (who owns a tree that knocked out your power) gets their power on and you don't, and you're cold and can't cook. Not to mention, the lack of solid information about what exactly is going on . . .
Snowflakes (5 years ago)
Unfortunately, it is these moments when the best is bought out in people, or the worst.
Unsung Heroes who place others needs and welfare before their own, these people seek nothing except self gratification in that they have treated others the way they should be.
Then there are the opposite in self serving selfish people who would climb upon a drowning mans back to save their own miserable hides.
Ultimately for both all life must end and our deeds recorded within the book of life to determine which plane of existence we shall dwell.
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