I am not certain, but it might have to do with the 12 cm of snow we received yesterday.
My room mate and I agreed when we figured out we had no power, we felt like children.
"Do i have to go to school today mom?"
"Just wait and see, we will listen to the radio" I guess that was more for snow days.
Nonetheless, i enjoyed the suspense of waiting for it to come back on,a nd the fear of having to do our work by hand, rather than on the computer.
Scott to the rescue! A collection of us drove 25 minutes to Okotoks, who did not face a power outage. Turns out, about 43,000 people in southern Alberta faced the same kind of dilemma. So we worked in a library all day.
When we came back to the base at 530, we were still out, and so i worked until my laptop lost all power, and proceeded to writing my work by hand. Just as I finished my first hand written chart, the surge returned, and there was much rejoicing.
The outage triggered a sociological interest for me-without power (mainly without computers) people played board games, struggled together to make coffee out of melted snow, and about 10 people were gathered together after supper just talking about traveling, and there was mention of a "work by candle light" party in the evening (on base, everything is a party, flossing, nail clipping, cereal eating...). It made me wonder what electricity has done to face to face interaction. Surely we are more socially networked than ever before via the internet, yet there was something wholesome about this blessing in disguise. Anyways, it just makes me wonder if we have truly benefited from our virtual explosion, and i just had to get on the internet to tell you about it, oh the irony.
Picture: Me running out my laptop juice while sitting at my dresser because i needed the fading sun light.
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