It's weird how much stuff like that (losing broadband) usually upsets me -- but probably because this situation has just been so uttely ridiculousm, I've been weirdly sunshiney about it. (Gallows humour?)
Mostly I've just been worried for the elderly neighbors (we have a lot of them) without access to unspoiled food, sitting in their stifling apartments. Man and I have just spent a lot of time eating out and playing cards by candlelight. :)
Hmmm? As far as I've heard, Brooklyn (and Manhattan and the Bronx and Staten Island) were unaffected after a couple of small outages last Monday. It's only this one area of Queens that's been stuck without power for a full week.
Oh! No worries. The reporting was so bad on this, I just wondered if there was stuff going on in Brooklyn I hadn't heard about. I just heard a brief mention that something happened in Jamaica, some power loss, but then it was on to the next story...
People on the radio this moring were still without power and calling for the head of...the "Head" of Con Ed! If I still hadn't gotten my power back, I'd probably be picketing in front of the power plant by now. I mean, it's right there!
Ah, yes. Home sweet home. Sorry I wasn't there to commiserate! We could have had a blackout party or something. But what do you want to bet that not a single stupid corporate billboard in Times Square lost so much as a lightbulb's worth of electricity?
I was thinking of you last week, mostly things along the lines of "Cat is so lucky she's not here!" When do you get back? And of course the blackout was centralized to our area only. Why else do you think it was allowed to go on so long?
I'm in the states now, but with my Dad. I will be back home in my apartment for good on Friday night (and I am SOOO looking forward to it - I laugh in the face of blackouts!) Actually, my brother doesn't think our apartment lost power at all, which means the whole thing was really very localized... welcome to the 21st century!
That's just cra-zeeee! People closer to the power plants seem to have it the worst, but for your apartment not to have been affected at all is mind-boggling! I mean, really! Too bad you weren't home, then. I could have made myself an unwelcome houseguest all last week. :)
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Mostly I've just been worried for the elderly neighbors (we have a lot of them) without access to unspoiled food, sitting in their stifling apartments. Man and I have just spent a lot of time eating out and playing cards by candlelight. :)
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People on the radio this moring were still without power and calling for the head of...the "Head" of Con Ed!
If I still hadn't gotten my power back, I'd probably be picketing in front of the power plant by now. I mean, it's right there!
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And how precisely *did* you survive the heat?
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Since the water heater wasn't working, all those gaspingly cold showers did the trick.
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When do you get back?
And of course the blackout was centralized to our area only. Why else do you think it was allowed to go on so long?
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