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Love power, it's the power of a sweet flower
I lost power around 4am this morning. When the power went out, something in my apartment went "beep" and woke me up. It's good to know that I can be awoken by unfamiliar "beep"s because I have been known to sleep through smoke alarms before. I didn't wake up very much... just enough to look at my watch (fortunately there was moonlight or something, because there didn't seem to be any lights anywhere around) and to think "If my power doesn't come back on, I will have to stay huddled under my blankets until it does. And if it doesn't come back soon, I will have to go to work to stay warm. And I will be stinky at work, because my hot water heater runs on electricity so I won't be able to take a shower." That is the extent of my rational thought before I fell back asleep. While I immediately thought of the heat and the hot water heater, it didn't occur to me that my ALARM CLOCK also runs on electricity and I didn't wake up until 7:45. Fortunately, the university also lost power and was closed till 10am today, so my lie-in was all good. Mother Nature has given me the Valentine's Day gift of sleep!
srah - Wednesday, 14 February 2007 - 1:00 PM
Tags: holidays, power outage, valentine's day, weather
Comments (2)
Fraulein N - February 14, 2007 - 2:33 PM - ℓ
Man, don't talk to me about that bee-yotch Mother Nature right now. We're kind of on the outs.
Well Mother Nature gave us an inch of ice followed by several inches of snow and closed schools and hazardous expressways abounding. I took that as a sign of divine intervention and stayed home!