Social Networking & Technology - No power, no good…
Yesterday we lost power for a couple of hours when we had a wind storm come through. It happened late in the afternoon just when the sun was starting to drift below the trees. As I sat in the ever dimming silence I reflected on just what I could do. Watch TV, no. Watch a movie, no. Surf the net, no. Pay bills online, no. Check the weather, no. Check the traffic, no. Phone someone using my @Home phone, no. Read a book, not without candles. Heat up a snack, no. Hmm. We so rely on power as the center of everything we do nowadays.
Within a few minutes I was impatient waiting for the power to come back on. But it didn’t. I suddenly realized that without power I have very little I can do. Sure, I could have got into my car and driven somewhere where there was power, but I was also waiting for my wife to get home from work. She had to park outside our apartment and not in the garage as that too required power to open. At least the apartment complex had some emergency hallway lighting in place so you could actually see where you were going on the trip from entering the complex to getting to your apartment (even if you couldn’t quite see where the key for the door went!). So, we decided to go out somewhere after all. We had no idea when the power would be restored.
We got home a few hours later and the power was back. Then I had to reboot all the PCs, reset all the clocks, check everythnig else electrical, etc. We had already come home to an apartment that had two lights on and the TV blaring! Oh, I so love technology…
