I've lived in this tiny Armpit-of-the-State town for just a little more than 2 years. In that time, the power has gone out FOUR times. And we're not just talking a little surge with a few minutes in the dark. I mean 3, 4, sometimes 6 HOUR STRETCHES with no power. I lived in a small town in a county with public power for nearly 20 years and only once in all that time did the power go off more for more than 20 minutes.
Part of me wants to extoll the virtues of public power and decry the horrors of privately owned power companies who don't do preventative maintenance, causing the faintest of windstorms to down lines, but ugh. I'm still sick and really, I just want to whine about not getting to see The Office tonight. Don't tell me what happened. I have to wait ALL DAY to watch it now!
