Political Humor | Fight the Power

Last night the power went out during a thunderstorm, and as a result, I missed The Imperial Clubat. It was still off when I left for work this morning. It came back on by noon, but the thunderstorms continue. I am currently sitting at work, no lights, nothin’. The wind is whipping at probably at least 30 mph, and the rain is dropping like an overturned lake.

The cable is out at home, so I don’t have phone, TV, or internet, and now that the power’s out here I lost the internet connection here too, so I’m writing offline at the moment. I’ll lose battery power in a few minutes if the power here at work stays off. My battery sucks and only gives me about 15 minutes.

Crikey! It’s dark in here. Due to the wind and rain, all the doors are now closed, and we have no skylights. A few windows. but in a 60k sq. ft. building, that doesn’t illumiate much. At least the power at home is on… I hope. No pwer=no running water.

I only slept a few hours last night because it was so freakin’ hot, and I had neither AC nor fan to keep cool. I’m sick of this crap. We have trees dropping like flies, and telephone poles doing the same.

At this rate, I’m going to move us all to my parent’s house or something, that is, if they have power. Now it’s getting really hot. The only saving grace was the full blast industrial fan, and now that’s gone.

If you don’t hear from me, I either still have no way of getting online, or I done sweated to death. Hey wait, if either of those happen, this will never get posted.

UPDATE: Crap! The power’s out at my house. They’re telling me 5pm for it to be restored, which probably means 5am instead.

3:45pm - Still no power at work or at home. I’m still at work, but I’m sitting in my car and plugged in through the dash hole. I called Mom and there’s no power at her place either. Unlike us, though, they have public water, and thus don’t need electricity to have running water. We have a well, which means that the water is at a lower elevation than the house and all it’s fixtures. Stupid gravity doesn’t like things to trave up, so it requires a water pump to get running water at our place. No electricity=no water pump. GRRRRRRR! I haven’t had a shower, and I feel like a goddamned dirty hippy.

I type so slowly that it took 10 minutes to write that paragraph.

4:10 - Power’s back on at work, not at home though. Posting this.