Power Outage

So I started this blog as a way of writing down my thoughts for all you readers out there, maybe you can empathize, maybe not.



I wanted to start with the subject of power outage. For most of you that live in Indiana, we recently had a rough bout of storms go through our area. It was bad enough where I live to wake our daugther up at midnight and head down to the basement. At the same time, we also noticed that the power went out. This isn't abnormal during a storm. However they typically come back on in about 15 minutes, which they did not. So we are using my husband's iPhone as a flashlight, we are so inventive. We head back upstairs and try to go to sleep. I have very good hearing and thus sleep with a fan on to drowned out other noise. No power - no fan. We also had our air conditioning on b/c it was supposed to get into the upper 80s the next couple of days. No power- no air conditioning. Not wanting to open the windows for fear that the storm wasn't over we went to sleep in less than favorable temperatures.



Long story short I have been out of power for most of the day. How? You might ask am I blogging now. Well the power did eventually come back on, but how often to we take our power for granted. For example I got up this morning to the awakening sounds of my dear daughter who was hungry for her milk. No power - no cold refridgerator (or soon will not be cold). I myself was a bit hungry. What to have for breakfast.... toast? No power - no toaster. Heat up some sausage links? No power - no microwave. Make some eggs on the stove? No power - no stove. I think that you are getting my drift.



There are so many other things that we take for granted with power. For example, running water and the ability to possibly FLUSH the toilet after you use it. Can't do that without power b/c if you flush it once, it won't fill back up with water. You can't brush your teeth, no running water without power. You can't turn on the television, watch a movie, check your email, etc. Heck you can't even get out of your garage without power. I had to manually open up my garage door and then manually close it. And when I got home today my freezer had started to manually defrost itself - big puddle of water on the floor.



So I drove down to the local supermarket and bought some ice along with some more milk for my DD and went home. After I had taken most of the contents out of the freezer and put them into the coolers, the power came back on. Oh blessed day! I went through the entire house and flipped on every switch, turned on every faucet and flushed every toilet! Blessed be the finder of electricity - Benjamin Franklin. If I didn't appreciate you before this, I really appreciate you now!