December 27, 2008

A Fine How-d'you-do

Lights, power, um, hurricane lanterns?

Fortunately I'd finished washing dishes.

There's always an initial period of excitement and amusement about a power outage, but when it becomes apparent that it ain't comin' back anytime soon, crankiness begins to exhibit.

We were out from 6:45pm to about 1:30am.

Hawaii Public Radio tells me that the Fire Department had to rescue 42 people stranded in elevators. That would probably be my worst nightmare; stuck in an enclosed box between floors of a high rise building.

Posted by Linkmeister at December 27, 2008 08:13 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Yes. Yes it would.

Glad you're back online.

Posted by: tomorrow at December 27, 2008 09:45 AM

I remember stories of folks getting stuck in high-rise elevators in Sacramento and San Francisco during brown-outs/black-outs of the Enron enduced "Energy Crisis."

I would freak out. Literally. I hate elevators anyway and to be stuck in one for hours...OMG.

Posted by: cookie jill at December 28, 2008 11:10 AM