The Six Phases of Dealing With a Power Outage. “Acceptance” Is Not One of Them
18th June 2017
It’s not quite accurate to say we lost power in last week’s harsh storm. It’s not like I couldn’t find it. “Hey, who had the power last, and where did you put it? Did it roll under the sofa? Wait, never mind — it was in my other pants pocket.”
No, the power was taken away. The transformer was hit by lightning, which seems to be the sort of thing a transformer would like: “Whoa! Awesome. That’s the good stuff. Set me up again, bartender.” But no, the transformer decided to do its best impersonation of a large star going nova while some snapped wires danced on the ground looking for squirrels to murder.