Prayer Conditioning

TCS Daily ^ | 8/9/2006 | Max Schulz

[Jane2005]

How appropriate that the ailing Fidel Castro managed to intrude upon a fairly heavy news cycle, since the numerous power outages and rolling blackouts caused by the current heat wave have left so many American cities resembling Havana.

The Cuban capital has for years been notorious for routinely shutting off its residents' electricity, leaving them to sweat out the brutal Caribbean heat. Americans from coast to coast recently received a taste of that Castro legacy as temperatures soared to record highs, straining utilities and electricity distribution systems. The loss of power and air conditioning is being blamed for upward of 200 deaths nationwide. No city has suffered in quite the way Gotham has, where more than 100,000 residents suffered a complete loss of power -- some for nearly two weeks.