I am not cut out for the 19th century

[vanillafluffy]

Last night at 11:45, my power went out. It wasn't directly caused by weather; it was quiet, dispite having rained all fucking day. The FPL recorded message said it should be on by 4 AM, which didn't make me happy, but, what can you do?

I'm really thankful it was a temperate night; if this had happened in July or August, I would've ended up camping out at WalMart. Even without working fans, it wasn't uncomfortably hot. Not cool, either, but rather neutral.

Lights et al finally came back on at 10:15, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now if I can just stop humming "Wichita Lineman"....

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[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a very good documentary, "The Crumbling of America" that talks about how our infrastructure is going to hell and one of the things it specifically mentions is the electrical grid. This turned out to be from a branch either pulling down or shorting out a wire, but the recurring problem that's less inconvenient but still really annoying---in some weather, my phone lines pick up transmissions from a local bible-thumping radio station. o_O