In the dark - again
Last night brought another windstorm and another power outage. They’re becoming almost routine around here. The lights went out about 10:30 p.m. and weren’t back on when I left the house at about a quarter to 10 the next morning. Then I had to stop and help some other volunteers move sections of a tree out of the road just to get to town. The other direction wasn’t passable at all because the tree that fell there brought down a power line that draped across Cape George Road. Exciting stuff.
It’s almost, no, it is actually funny how the weather has disrupted travel and communications around here for the last three months. People just shake their heads or roll their eyes, generally with a shrug to say, “What can you do?” A sense of humor certainly helps.
That and practice patience or in my case use the day’s lesson. It’s probably also a good idea to carry a small flashlight all the time. Last night’s power failure caught me taking a load of laundry to the wash room to run while I slept. The laundry basket is still on the floor where I dropped it to crawl over to my alter to light a candle It’s not windy now so I might have a chance of getting the clothes clean tonight.
I am never upset for the reason I think. That’s so easy to see in my and other’s reactions to power failures, road washouts and downed trees. Some people, especially those who have lived here for a while, just shrug. Others act as if the world were ending, spinning out whole potential tragedies for our amazement. If we can all react to the same events so differently, it is not the storms that we are upset with, it’s whatever we assume the storm means. For newcomers it is different and frightening. For old timers it’s just par for the course.
Yes, it’s not convenient to be without power for a while. But it was bedtime anyway. Throw a couple more blankets on the bed to compensate for the heat being out. Put some earplugs in to dull the storm noise (thank you Wendy for the idea) and sleep through it. No big deal.
A hot shower would have been nice this morning but I didn’t melt because of its absence.
Posted on January 6, 2007 ::
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