A great storm affecting Washington and Oregon states has left me -and about a million and a half others- without power. Since everything at my place runs on electricity -including the heating- I cannot stay there. It's been 3 days, and over half the service has been restored -though I am still waiting, so I have to depend on the hospitality and kindness of others, for which I am very thankful. But I wonder if I've been especially lucky; excluding camping trips I have never in my life until now been without electrical power for more than a few hours at a time, even in the developing world.
It makes me reflect on how much we take the comforts and easy life of civilization for granted, and how fragile it really is.
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