Back on the grid
We lost power in yesterday’s storms and didn’t get it back until this afternoon. We’ve got a big branch down in the back yard, but since it didn’t hit the house, we’re grateful.
This did show me that we’re not as prepared for "disaster" as I’d like — while we had lots of candles and flashlights, we didn’t have batteries for our big lamp, and this morning, we couldn’t find our battery operated radios to find out whether the schools would be opening on time. (Wound up sitting in the car to listen to the radio there.) We have lots of supplies, but I’m not quite sure where they are…
June 5th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
We had no power last Friday to last Tuesday, and discovered several ways in which we were not-so-prepared: not quite the right things in the pantry, and flashlights out of order and hard to find. When we move this summer, I’l try to think about settling into the new place with a better plan in place.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I was on Rte 50 at the Williston shopping center when the storm hit, and drove through it not quite to Annandale Road. Absolutely amazing storm. The car shook from the wind, and I was pretty glad to get out of it and into a building.
June 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
In the midwest, we’ve been having freaky-weird weather for a couple of years now. Like snowstorms that include thunder. Like 40-degree temperature drops in less than an hour. It may sometimes make for inconvenience, as in your case this time, Elizabeth. But it also means that, for example, much of Iowa can’t grow its crops this year. There’s too much rain, the plants can’t deal.
I think many people cognitively understand the relationship between global warming and the super-strong storms. But I suppose, as with so much of this environmental degradation stuff, it’s very hard to change patterns. Still, we need to take these events as wake-up calls. The current global warming bill in Senate has people saying things like, “We can’t do anything that raises the price of gas.” Yeah, that’s great thinking. Just keep on driving until the ENTIRE FOOD SUPPLY is destabilized. That’s the pathway to economic development right there!!
June 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
And we’re off again…