I Just Went Through Withdrawal

My electricity got turned off. No, not because I didn't pay my bill. It impacted several blocks in my neighborhood. When it first happened several of my neighbors stepped outside to try and see if anyone else was impacted. Some of us where, some of were not.

It was really strange sitting in the dark by candle and a camping light. Everything was extremely quite. I realized I haven't had total silence (for the most part) in years. My son's cat even got a little "needy". She comes to me some times when my son isn't home but this time she actually climbed on my pillow, which she usually doesn't do.

What withdrawal did I go through? Well it was a 2 1/2 almost 3 hour outage. The guys from the service provider had at least 6 trucks trying to narrow down the problem.

No electricity, no internet, no tv, no heat (even though I am on gas heat it is still hooked into the electric somehow, don't ask me, above my head, no lights, nothing. Well that isn't totally true, at least we still had water (although hot water was limited due to lack of electricity to heat the water up).

I have been in this house for over 15 years and I have never had this happen before. It kind of freaked me out. Then I got to thinking about all the stuff the North Eastern Coast of the US has gone through with all the snow. The media did not really cover power outages.

Some people from WA from those parts were able to post through those times. I can not image going days without the basics concerning electronic things. To me it is almost sad in a lot of ways.

Gone are the days of board games and sitting around the table talking (now we text).

Gone are the days of getting warm around a real fire (yes my house has a gas fireplace, in no way shape or form the same thing a a real fireplace)

Gone are the days of getting outside and doing things together without any interruptions. (meaning the days when no one had cell phones)

Maybe there are a few things we might want to consider re-introducing to our daily lives.

After all, who knows when the electric will go out and we no longer have our connections to the www to chat with, PM to, establish relationships with.

Just some fruits for thought coming to mind while everything was quite.

Electric is back on (obviously). The first thing I chose to do was to share with my WA family