We made it through last year's storm season and never (really) lost electricity, unlike most of our friends. Stories of sweating out nights with no air conditioning, losing all the food in the fridge, or checking into hotels for a comfortable night's sleep became commonplace.
Fast forward to the week of Christmas, when a friend who recently moved to Ohio described losing power to an ice-laden tree branch at 3am — and checking the family into a hotel for a day's warmth. Follow this with an email from my sister Sunday night, accompanied by photos of the more-than-6-inches of snow on their land. They lost power mid-day Saturday, but they have "plenty of food and bottled water" and are just trying to stay warm. (The email was sent using a battery-operated laptop and a dial-up connection.) Driving into town for a hotel is probably not an option; they were hopeful they might get power restored yesterday.
Having not experienced either extreme personally, I have to wonder which is worse: sweat out the summer and starve because the food went bad, or freeze to death in the winter with plenty of food on hand?
I vote for sweat out the summer and starve. My friend in Maitland (SWC) had power and food :-)plus I was able to drive to his house in the snow I would not! :-)
ReplyDeleteSweat and starve: if you are sweaty hopefully there will be antoher guyt here you can roll around with, and starving will allow me to shed those few extra pounds.
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